St. Joseph Sunday Gazette Articles on Baseball and Escaped Convicts, 1891
Entry/Object ID
AM1987.1.63
Scope and Content
St. Joseph Sunday Gazette Articles on Baseball and Escaped Convicts. Front page article Men Who Manage, Something about the business branch of baseball. Five well known magnates who by their capable management of the financial affairs of the national game have done much to advance the sport.
Another article The Escapes, the most daring one was that of a convict murderer set free while his boy accomplice goes to prison for life. Flight of an alleged embezzler with the chief witness against him. These were three cases that may be set down as new proof of the old adage that truth is stranger than fiction. Dated Sunday morning, April 26, 1891.
