New Book on Deck.
The Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball, Corruption and Murder
will be released on August 30, 2015.
The Death Row All Stars is the amazing true story of the men on Wyoming’s death row in the 1900s who believed they’d be granted reprieves as long as they kept winning baseball games.
The Death Row All Stars Most Valuable Player, Joseph Seng
It’s not the first time athletically talented inmates have been used to play ball. Two players from a Sacramento club of the Pacific Coast Baseball league entered Folsum prison on this day in August 1930, not for crimes committed but because the prison baseball teams wanted an even break with a team of all-stars they were scheduled to play.
The prisoners-for-a-day were Fred Kienly and his battery mate catcher George Lial. Playing alongside them were seven hard-hitting, fast-stepping infielders and outfielders who were sent up for “this, that and the other,” not for errors committed on the diamond. The Folsum prison warden expected his “black sheep” to beat the all-stars whose team had been mangled when they lost their star pitcher after he was set free.
The national launch of The Death Row All Stars: A Story of Baseball Corruption and Murder will be held on Saturday, August 30 at 4:30 p.m. at Raley Field in Sacramento, California.
Enter to win a copy of the book along with a pair of tickets to see the Sacramento River Cats take on the Reno Aces.
