Touring the Bases with…Frank Russo

Dave Rouleau posted 3/28/2008 from seamheads.com [flag]

Matt Sisson recently sat down with Frank Russo, Author of the book Bury My Heart at Cooperstown: Salacious, Sad, and Surreal Deaths in the History of Baseball, and creater of the website thedeadballera.com to talk baseball. [link]

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