When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope

by Kevin Cowherd

Book Overview

The date is April 29, 2015. Baltimore is reeling from the devastating riots sparked by the death in police custody of twenty-five-year-old African American Freddie Gray. Set against this grim backdrop, less than thirty-six hours after the worst rioting Baltimore has seen since the assassination of Martin Luther King in 1968, the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox take the field at Camden Yards. It is a surreal event they will never forget:...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1496213297
• ISBN13: 9781496213297
• Release Date: April 2019
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 8.5"