

Terror in the City of Champions
Murder, Baseball, and the Secret Society that Shocked Depression-era Detroit
Author: Tom Stanton
Narrator: Johnny Heller
Unabridged: 9 hr 37 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/06/2016
Categories: Nonfiction, History, Us History
Synopsis
Terror in the City of Champions opens with the arrival of Mickey Cochrane, a fiery baseball star who roused the Great Depression's hardest-hit city by leading the Tigers to the 1934 pennant. A year later he guided the team to its first championship. Within seven months the Lions and Red Wings follow in football and hockey—all while Joe Louis chased boxing's heavyweight crown.
Amidst such glory, the Legion's dreadful toll grew unchecked: staged “suicides,” bodies dumped along roadsides, high-profile assassination plots. Talkative Dayton Dean's involvement would deepen as heroic Mickey Cochrane's reputation would rise. But the ballplayer had his own demons, including a close friendship with Harry Bennett, Henry Ford's brutal union buster.