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167.
“were a bunch of tough SOBs”: Greenberg,
Hank Greenberg
, 78.

167.
“especially vicious”: Ritter,
The Glory of Their Times
, 329.

167.
“Jew this and Jew that”: Greenberg,
Hank Greenberg
, 78.

168.
“Those ladies in the boxes . . .”:
DFP
, October 5, 1935.

168.
“The trick is to make the umpire . . .”:
DN
, October 8, 1935.

168.
“Some of the words shouldn’t be printed . . .”: Greenberg,
Hank Greenberg
, 79.

168.
“hay-pitching, coon-hunting . . .”:
Time
, October 7, 1935.

168.
“Boy, you certainly tied a knot . . .”:
DN
, October 3, 1935.

168.
Ernie Wettler story:
DN
, October 4, 1935.

169.
“frail looking”:
DT
, October 8, 1935.

169.
“Little Tennessee Tom”: Ibid.

169.
“not much bigger than a hickory bootjack”:
New York World-Telegram
, October 8, 1935.

169.
“skinny . . . slender, wiry”:
DN
, October 4, 1935.

169.
“about as big as thirty cents . . .”:
The Sporting News
, March 14, 1946.

169.
“doesn’t look like he could break . . .”:
New York World-Telegram
, October 8, 1935.

169.
“We had Greenberg’s goat . . .”:
Chicago Daily News
, October 7, 1935.

169.
“I knew they couldn’t keep us down forever”:
DFP
, October 4, 1935.

170.
“Never mind about the train . . . I’ll be okay, Joe”: Ibid.

170.
“Mickey, my wife is pregnant . . .”: Author interview with Basil Mickey Briggs.

170.
“You know what this means . . . in twenty minutes”:
DFP
, October 5, 1935.

171.
“Did you order Owen . . . I alone”:
DN
, November 14, 1935.

172.
“used blasphemous language . . . on both sides”:
DFP
, October 5, 1935.

172.
“Pappy’s in the poorhouse . . .”: Bak,
Cobb Would Have Caught It
, 248.

172.
“It looks like they don’t need me”:
DN
, October 5, 1935.

172.
“I’ll wait until the numbers go up . . .”:
DFP
, October 7, 1935.

173.
“The crowd oozed confidence . . .”:
DFP
, October 7, 1935.

173.
“That guy is as game as they come”: Ibid.

173.
“He’s the best ball player all around”: Ibid.

174.
“Go away, Doc . . . hope you can make it”:
DFP
, October 8, 1935.

174.
“Was that my daddy?”:
DN
, October 9, 1935.

176.
“Without question, I am the most pleased . . .”:
DFP
, October 8, 1935.

176.
World Series victory and celebration: Multiple sources, including
DFP, DN
, and
DT
, October 7–9, 1935.

177.
“The Leaning Tower can now crumble . . .”: Ibid.

177.
“We graybeards of the years . . .”:
DN
, October 8, 1935.

177.
“It was Detroit’s salute to America . . .”:
DFP
, October 8, 1935.

177.
“I can now die in peace”:
DN
, November 16, 1935.

Amid the Joy, Punishment

178.
“Your foreman wants to see you . . .”:
DN
, July 30, 1936.

178.
“I know what you want . . .”: Ibid.

180.
“a terrible, shameful sight”: Letter to Marmon from X-9 informant, July 3, 1936, Michigan State Police files, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

180.
Harley Smith beating:
DN
, May 27, 1936.

180.
“die for the Red, White, and Blue . . .”:
Washington News
, June 3, 1936.

181.
Denver Carter beating: Michigan State Police report, May 25, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

181.
Paul Every beating:
DFP
and
DN
, May 24, 1936.

181.
Alfred Roughley disappearance:
DFP
, July 2, 1936.

181.
Alexander Murdy disappearance:
DT
, June 2 and 10, 1936, and
DN
, June 10, 1936.

The Pastor Who Said No

182.
“
When we get wise and organize
. . .”: Sugar Collection, Box 14.

182.
Plot against Maurice Sugar: Numerous sources, including
DN
, June 19 and 29, 1936, and
DT
, April 14, 1937.

183.
“The automobile manufacturers of this city . . .”: Sugar Collection, Box 10.

183.
“I say that the unemployed of this city . . .”: Ibid.

183.
“reactionary Republican”: Ibid.

183.
“denounce and ridicule procedure under our Constitution . . .”: Ibid.

183.
“Upton Sinclair still loves Roosevelt . . .”:
DN
, November 4, 1935.

184.
“I’m sorry for the state of the brains . . .”: Ibid.

184.
“Vote for Comrade Sugar . . .”: Fake pamphlet, Sugar Collection, Box 19.

184.
S
EIZE
S
UGAR
L
ITERATURE
:
DN
, November 4, 1935.

184.
“On the walls were pictures of Lenin . . .”: Ibid.

184.
“It’s a last-minute move . . .”: Ibid.

184.
“There was nothing of an incriminating nature”:
DFP
, November 5, 1935.

185.
“One of our party sections is bombed . . .”:
DFP
, September 7, 1935.

186.
“If you’d ever been to a meeting and seen . . .”:
DN
, June 9, 1936.

186.
“I told them that I had a gun . . .”: Michigan State Police report, June 8, 1936, Amann Collection, Box 5A.

186.
VFW members in Sandusky:
DN
, May 28, 1936.

187.
Rev. Ralph C. Montague initiation:
DN
, May 28 and June 5, 1936.

187.
“outspoken . . . square-jawed”: Ibid.

187.
“despicable and un-American”: Ibid.

188.
“String him up . . . I’m prepared to die”: Ibid.

Uncle Frank

189.
Frank Navin’s death: Numerous sources, especially the
DFP
,
DN
, and
DT
, November 13–15, 1935.

189.
“good for my liver”:
DN
, November 14, 1935.

190.
“I’ll never forget our dressing room . . .”:
DN
, October 9, 1935.

190.
“the luckiest and happiest boy in the world”:
Ibid.

Come to Detroit, Lindbergh

192.
“We’ve lost our last game . . .”:
DN
, November 18, 1935.