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100 1  Stanton, Tom,|d1960-|eauthor. 
245 10 Terror in the city of champions :|bmurder, baseball, and 
       the secret society that shocked Depression-era Detroit /
       |cTom Stanton. 
264  1 Guilford, Connecticut :|bLP,|c[2016] 
300    xiii, 327 pages :|billustrations ;|c24 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-314) and 
       index. 
520    A New York Times Bestseller Detroit, mid-1930s: In a city 
       abuzz over its unrivaled sports success, gun-loving 
       baseball fan Dayton Dean became ensnared in the nefarious 
       and deadly Black Legion. The secretive, Klan-like group 
       was executing a wicked plan of terror, murdering enemies, 
       flogging associates, and contemplating armed rebellion. 
       The Legion boasted tens of thousands of members across the
       Midwest, among them politicians and prominent citizens 
       even, possibly, a beloved athlete. 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 s 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. 
610 20 Black Legion. 
650  0 Murder|zMichigan|zDetroit|xHistory|y20th century. 
650  0 Professional sports|zMichigan|zDetroit|xHistory|y20th 
       century. 
650  0 Baseball|zMichigan|zDetroit|xHistory|y20th century. 
651  0 Detroit (Mich.)|xHistory|y20th century.