Baseball's Most Notorious Personalities: A Gallery of Rogues
This volume fills a gap in the wide and deep literature of the history of professional  baseball, focusing exclusively on the more infamous players to grace the sport.  The text is divided into 10 chapters of short biographies, such as “The Mysterious and the Macabre”; “Liars, Cheats, and Tattletales”; and “Meddlesome Managers.”  A sampling of the entries provides Marty Bergen, a catcher for the Boston Beaneaters who murdered his family; and Carl Mays, a pitcher who killed a batter with a brush-back pitch to the head. A name index is provided as well as statistics for each of the mentioned players. This volume would be a great addition to the circulating collection of most libraries. --Jerry Carbone