Between 2009 and 2013, I maintained a Typepad blog entitled More Fiends to give post-publication updates to my book Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines. Although I stopped posting to that blog over a year ago, I left it online until now. [I believe WordPress is a stronger platform; and also wanted to create a blog... Continue Reading →
Nellie’s New Vice
In Minnesota's Notorious Nellie King I detailed Nellie's several substance abuse habits: whiskey, laudanum, morphine, and cocaine. Just recently, however, a new favorite of hers has surfaced: from Duluth Evening Herald, Sep 29, 1891 This should come as no surprise, though. Opium use was rampant during the 1880s and 1890s, and opium joints likely existed... Continue Reading →
Maud Lee Healed!
In an effort to find some new tidbit on the tragic Maud Lee (subject of my book A Pair of Shootists), I stumbled across a reference to a name that appeared in my earlier book on Alfred Lawson (Baseball Fiends and Flying Machines). Lawson, between the years 1917 and 1921, befriended Wilbur Glenn Voliva, leader... Continue Reading →
