The Short Life of Hughie McLoon: A True Story of Baseball, Magic and Murder

by Allen Abel

Book Overview

"This could be a great work of fiction. The damndest thing is it's all fact." - Michael Farber, Sports Illustrated It was a time of Prohibition, jazz, and gangland murder, and it was baseball's age of magic, when even Hall of Fame players believed that rubbing the hump of a hunchback guaranteed a hit. Broken and deformed by a childhood fall from a seesaw, Hughie McLoon never grew taller than forty-nine inches but he made himself one of the lucky ones...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1989555217
• ISBN13: 9781989555217
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Sutherland House Books
• Length: 220 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"