Item #48577 Baseball's Great Tragedy; The Story of Carl Mays Submarine Pttcher. Bob McGarigle.
Baseball's Great Tragedy; The Story of Carl Mays Submarine Pttcher

Baseball's Great Tragedy; The Story of Carl Mays Submarine Pttcher

Exposition Banner, 1972. First edition. Hard Cover. There is some toning to gutters of both front and rear. Otherwise, a very nice copy in a lightly chipped dust jacket. very good/very good. Item #48577
ISBN: 0682474509

On August 16, 1920, Mays accidentally struck Ray Chapman of the Cleveland Indians with a pitch. Chapman died the following morning. Many fans and players demanded Mays be banished from baseball. "Nobody, it seems, ever remembers anything about me except one thing- that a pitch I threw caused a man to die". Carl Mays.

Price: $155.00

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