What a mess huh?
It’s not often that a national book launch takes place at a baseball stadium, but one is coming to Raley Field.
Grass Valley nonfiction Western writer Chris Enss and co-author Howard Kazanjian tell a remarkable, little-known and scandalous story in “Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder” (Globe Pequot, $17, 176 pages). The two will be at Raley Field for a meet ’n’ greet and book-signing from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, before the Sacramento River Cats take on the Reno Aces at 7:05 p.m.
In the early 1900s, in the Golden Age of Baseball, the death-row inmates at Wyoming State Penitentiary had formed a team known as the Death Row All Stars. And they were very, very good – and notorious. So notorious that other baseball teams from around California, Nevada, Oregon and other Western states lined up to play them on the penitentiary grounds.
Grass Valley nonfiction Western writer Chris Enss and co-author Howard Kazanjian tell a remarkable, little-known and scandalous story in “Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption, and Murder” (Globe Pequot, $17, 176 pages). The two will be at Raley Field for a meet ’n’ greet and book-signing from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. Saturday, before the Sacramento River Cats take on the Reno Aces at 7:05 p.m.
In the early 1900s, in the Golden Age of Baseball, the death-row inmates at Wyoming State Penitentiary had formed a team known as the Death Row All Stars. And they were very, very good – and notorious. So notorious that other baseball teams from around California, Nevada, Oregon and other Western states lined up to play them on the penitentiary grounds.
