Death at the Ballpark ― More Than 2,000 Game-related Fatalities of Players, Other Personnel and Spectators in Amateur and Professional Baseball 1862-2014

Authors Gorman and Weeks present general interest readers with the second edition of their comprehensive examination of more than two thousand baseball related deaths from 1862 to 2014. The authors have organized the fifteen chapters that make up the main body of their text in three parts devoted to deaths of players, deaths of field personnel, and deaths of fans. Annotation c2016 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR (protoview.com)

Robert M. Gorman is a retired university reference librarian with more than 40 years of professional research experience. He and coauthor David Weeks received the 2009 Sporting News–SABR Baseball Research Award for the first edition of Death at the Ballpark (McFarland, 2009). He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina. David Weeks is head of public services at Winthrop University’s Dacus Library. He and Robert Gorman received the McFarland–SABR Baseball Research Award in 2003 for the article “Foul Play: Fan Fatalities in Twentieth-Century Organized Baseball.” He lives in Rock Hill, South Carolina.