Terror in the City of Champions (61 page)

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The Freedom of Information Act is a critical and sometimes underappreciated tool that allows all of us access to the records of our government. It was through the act that I obtained copies of more than nine hundred pages of FBI documents related to the Black Legion. These proved vital.

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I continually found helpful, reliable information at baseball-almanac.com, baseball-reference.com, historicdetroit.org, and retrosheet.org.

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Adamic, Louis. “Hill-Billies Come to Detroit.”
Nation
, February 13, 1935.

Allen, Frederick Lewis.
Since Yesterday: The 1930s in America
. New York: Harper & Row, 1939.

Amann, Peter H. “Vigilante Fascism: The Black Legion as an American Hybrid.”
Comparative Studies in Society and History
(July 1983): 490–524.

Ambrogio, Anthony, and Sharon Luckerman.
Cruisin’ the Original Woodward Avenue
. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2006.

Anderson, William M.
The Glory Years of the Detroit Tigers, 1920–1950
. Detroit: Wayne State, 2012.

Angelo, Frank.
On Guard:
A History of the Detroit Free Press
. Detroit: Detroit Free Press, 1981.

Anonymous. “I Was a Captain in the Black Legion.”
True Detective Mysteries
, December 1936 and January 1937.

Astor, Gerald.
And a Credit to His Race: The Hard Life and Times of Joseph Louis Barrow
. New York: Saturday Review, 1974.

Auker, Elden.
Sleeper Cars and Flannel Uniforms
. Chicago: Triumph, 2001.

Avison, Charles.
Detroit City of Champions
. Detroit: Diomedea, 2008.

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Detroit City of Champions: The Players
. Detroit: Diomedea, 2013.

Babson, Steve.
Working Detroit
. New York: Adama, 1984.

Babson, Steve, Dave Biddle, and David Elsila.
The Color of Law
. Detroit: Wayne State, 2010.

Bak, Richard.
Cobb Would Have Caught It
. Detroit: Wayne State, 1991.

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Joe Louis: The Great Black Hope
. New York: Da Capo, 1998.

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A Place for Summer: A Narrative History of Tiger Stadium
. Detroit: Wayne, 1998.

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Turkey Stearnes and the Detroit Stars
. Detroit: Great Lakes, 1995.

Baldwin, Neil.
Henry Ford and the Jews: The Mass Production of Hate
. New York: Public Affairs, 2001.

Barrow, Joe Jr., and Barbara Munder.
Joe Louis: Fifty Years an American Hero
. New York: McGraw-Hill, 1988.

Basso, Hamilton. “Radio Priest—in Person.”
New Republic
, June 5, 1935.

Bennett, Harry, as told to Paul Marcus.
Ford: We Never Called Him Henry
. New York: Tor, 1987.

Bevis, Charlie.
Mickey Cochrane: The Life of a Baseball Hall of Fame Catcher
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 1998.

Bingay, Malcolm W.
Detroit Is My Own Home Town
. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1946.

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Of Me I Sing
. New York: Bobbs-Merrill, 1949.

Bryan, Ford R.
Henry’s Lieutenants
. Detroit: Wayne State, 1993.

Cabadas, Joseph P.
River Rouge: Ford’s Industrial Colossus
. St. Paul, MN: Motorbooks, 2004.

Casey, Bernadine, ed.
Letters from Solanus Casey
. Detroit: Father Solanus Guild, 2000.

Clinansmith, Michael S. “The Black Legion: Hooded Americanism in Michigan.”
Michigan History
(Fall 1971): 243–62.

Cochrane, Mickey.
The Fan’s Game
. Cleveland: SABR, 1992.

“Coughlin: 23,000 Applaud the Fighting Priest, Two Rebuke Him.”
News-Week
, June 1, 1935.

Crosby, Michael.
Thank God Ahead of Time
. Quincy, IL: Franciscan, 2000.

Crowley, David H. “Black Legion Secrets Never Before Told.”
True Detective Mysteries
, December 1936.

Davis, Forrest. “Labor Spies and the Black Legion.”
New Republic
, June 17, 1936.

Dean, Dayton. “Secrets of the Black Legion.”
Official Detective Stories
, October 1, 1936.

Derum, James Patrick.
The Porter of Saint Bonaventure’s
. Detroit: Fidelity, 1972.

Doherty, Edward. “The Amazing Career of Father Coughlin.”
Liberty
, January 5, 1935.

Dos Passos, John. “Detroit City of Leisure.”
New Republic
, July 27, 1932.

Dow, Bill. “The Lions’ Dutch Clark.” blog.detroitathletic.com, January 23, 2012.

Eliot, George Field. “Behind the Black Legion—What?”
Liberty Magazine
, September 5, 1936.

“Father Coughlin.”
Fortune
, February 1934.

Feldman, Doug.
September Streak: The 1935 Chicago Cubs Chase the Pennant
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2003.

Ferkovich, Scott, ed.
Detroit: The Unconquerable
. Phoenix: SABR, 2014.

Fine, Sidney.
Frank Murphy: The Detroit Years
. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan, 1975.

Fox, Craig.
Everyday Klansfolk: White Protestant Life and the KKK in 1920s Michigan
. East Lansing: Michigan State, 2011.

Freedman, Lew.
Joe Louis: The Life of a Heavyweight
. Jefferson, NC: McFarland, 2013.

Frisch, Frank.
Frank Frisch: The Fordham Flash
. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1962.

Garraty, John A.
The Great Depression
. New York: Harcourt, 1986.

Goll, Ralph. “Ripping the Black Mask from Detroit’s Terror Legion.”
Daring Detective
, August 1936.

Greenberg, Hank, with Ira Berkow.
Hank Greenberg: The Story of My Life
. Chicago: Triumph, 1989.

Heidenry, John.
The Gashouse Gang
. New York: Public Affairs, 2007.

Helmer, William, with Rick Mattix.
Public Enemies: America’s Criminal Past, 1919–1940
. New York: Checkmark, 1998.

Henrickson, Wilma.
Detroit Perspectives: Crossroads and Turning Points
. Detroit: Wayne State, 1991.

Holli, Melvin, ed.
Detroit
. New York: New Viewpoints, 1976.

Holway, John.
Voices from the Great Black Baseball Leagues
. New York: Dodd, Mead & Co., 1975.

Johnson, Christopher.
Maurice Sugar: Law, Labor, and the Left in Detroit 1912–1950
. Detroit: Wayne State, 1988.

Kahn, Albert E.
High Treason: The Plot Against the People
. New York: Lear, 1950.

Kavieff, Paul R.
Detroit’s Infamous Purple Gang
. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2008.

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The Purple Gang: Organized Crime in Detroit 1910–1945
. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade, 2005.

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The Violent Years: Prohibition and the Detroit Mob
. Fort Lee, NJ: Barricade, 2001.

Keegan, Tom.
Ernie Harwell: My Sixty Years in Baseball
. Chicago: Triumph, 2002.

Kelly, Brent. “Flea Clifton: Lifelong Disciple of Ty Cobb.”
Sports Collectors Digest
, July 15, 1994.

Kessler, Ronald.
The Bureau: The Secret History of the FBI
. New York: St. Martin’s, 2002.

Ketchum, Richard M.
Will Rogers: The Man and His Times
. New York: Touchstone, 1973.

Krauss, Henry.
Heroes of the Unwritten Story: The UAW, 1934–39
. Chicago: University of Illinois, 1993.

Lacey, Robert.
Ford: The Men and the Machine
. Boston: Little, Brown, 1986.

Lee, Albert.
Henry Ford and the Jews
. New York: Stein and Day, 1980.

Lester, Larry.
Black Baseball’s National Showcase: The East-West All-Star Game, 1933–1953
. Lincoln, NE: Bison Books, 2002.

Lieb, Frederick G.
The Detroit Tigers
. New York: Putnam, 1946.

Lodge, John C.
I Remember Detroit
. Detroit: Wayne State, 1949.

Louis, Joe, with Edna and Art Rust Jr.
Joe Louis: My Life
. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1978.

Lundberg, Alex, and Greg Kowalski.
Detroit’s Masonic Temple
. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2006.