Love and Loss
The Short Life of Ray Chapman
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2024
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2566-4 (ISBN)
Ohio University Press (Verlag)
978-0-8214-2566-4 (ISBN)
Ray Chapman lived the American dream as a star baseball player for the Cleveland Indians until 1920, when he was fatally hit in the head by a fastball. This biography details Chapman’s fairy tale life, his marriage to heiress Kathleen Daly, and how it became an American tragedy.
The son of a coal miner from a small Illinois town, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lived the American dream until his untimely death at age twenty-nine. In his brief life, he reached the pinnacle of baseball success as the best shortstop in the American League. While many professional ballplayers struggled with meager salaries, the handsome Chapman had married heiress Kathleen Daly, one of Cleveland’s wealthiest women. With a child on the way and an executive job in the offseason, Chapman was moving toward a privileged place in society until an errant fastball fractured his skull and ended his life the next day.
Late in the 1920 pennant race, the Indians were in New York for a key series against the Yankees. New York pitcher Carl Mays threw a high hard one that Chapman could not evade. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors tried in vain to save his life. The tragedy did not end there. His widow took her own life eight years later, and their daughter, Rae, subsequently died from meningitis. Today, people visit Chapman’s impressive grave in Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery, leaving baseballs and gloves in his memory. Though gone over a hundred years, he is well remembered as a Cleveland icon. This book goes far beyond the well-worn accounts of Chapman’s untimely death to illustrate the fullness of his short life.
The son of a coal miner from a small Illinois town, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lived the American dream until his untimely death at age twenty-nine. In his brief life, he reached the pinnacle of baseball success as the best shortstop in the American League. While many professional ballplayers struggled with meager salaries, the handsome Chapman had married heiress Kathleen Daly, one of Cleveland’s wealthiest women. With a child on the way and an executive job in the offseason, Chapman was moving toward a privileged place in society until an errant fastball fractured his skull and ended his life the next day.
Late in the 1920 pennant race, the Indians were in New York for a key series against the Yankees. New York pitcher Carl Mays threw a high hard one that Chapman could not evade. He was taken to a nearby hospital, where doctors tried in vain to save his life. The tragedy did not end there. His widow took her own life eight years later, and their daughter, Rae, subsequently died from meningitis. Today, people visit Chapman’s impressive grave in Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery, leaving baseballs and gloves in his memory. Though gone over a hundred years, he is well remembered as a Cleveland icon. This book goes far beyond the well-worn accounts of Chapman’s untimely death to illustrate the fullness of his short life.
Scott H. Longert is the author of numerous books on Cleveland baseball history from the post–Civil War era through the middle of the twentieth century. He has an MA in American history from Cleveland State University and has appeared on numerous broadcast media shows, on baseball documentaries, and at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Acknowledgments
Prologue
1 A Boy of Many Talents
2 The Run through the Minors
3 The Naps Are Calling
4 A Bad Break
5 To Trade or Not to Trade
6 A New Family
7 Setting New Records
8 Ray Joins the Naval Reserve
9 A Married Man
10 Tragedy at the Polo Grounds
11 Saying Goodbye
Epilogue
Sources
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 15.08.2024 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 14 black and white illustrations |
| Verlagsort | Athens |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 140 x 216 mm |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport | |
| Weitere Fachgebiete ► Sportwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-8214-2566-8 / 0821425668 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-8214-2566-4 / 9780821425664 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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