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- Title
A Deadball Era Whodunit.
- Authors
Lamb, William F.
- Abstract
This article combines biography of two-game major league pitcher George "Lefty" Craig with an accounting of the investigation into his death, a 1911 felony murder in Indianapolis. In the telling, the travails of a fringe ballplayer from a century ago seem to bear many of the hall-marks of today's life in baseball for the less-gifted player. But back then, investigation of homicide was an entirely different matter than it is at present. Deprived of forensics and other modern evidence-gathering techniques, investigators failed in the effort to identify Lefty Craig's killer, making his slaying the coldest of cold cases on the books of the Indianapolis police.
- Subjects
CRAIG, George; BASEBALL players; PITCHERS (Baseball); BASEBALL; HOMICIDE
- Publication
Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, 2014, Vol 8, p76
- ISSN
1934-2802
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3172/BB.8.76