Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments    
Introduction    

1 Where the River Broadens Out    
2 The College of the Holy Cross    
3 From Worcester to Notre Dame    
4 The National League    
5 Tebeau’s Indians    
6 “He’s the Stuff and He’s the People”    
7 The Polo Grounds    
8 Fall from Grace    
9 The 1898 Season    
10 Sitting the Bench    
11 “The Sorriest Shell of a Team Ever Seen…”    
12 “A Sorrowful Spectacle…”    
13 Bender, Meyers, and Andrew Sockalexis    
14 The End of the Line    
15 Louis Sockalexis and the Cleveland Indians    
16 Epilogue    

Appendix 1: William J. Fox Letter    
Appendix 2: Sockalexis Statistics    
Notes    
Bibliography    
Index    

About the Author

David L. Fleitz is a web developer and database analyst who lives in Troy, Michigan. A longtime SABR member, he has written nine other books on baseball history.

Reviews

“well-researched, highly readable study...an interesting and detailed account...in creating this concise and accurate account of the career of Louis Sockalexis, Fleitz displays an inquisitive scholar’s refusal to accept old tales at face value, a diligent researcher’s willingness to seek out the facts in primary sources, and a skillful writer’s ability to clearly describe what actually happened...valuable work”—Nine; “more scholarly and complete [than the competition]...excellent illustrations...detailed endnotes”—Daily News; (Bowling Green, Kentucky), “the book tells an in-depth story of the life of a Penobscot Indian from Maine”—Frommer Sports Net; “Fleitz has researched and told the story of Sockalexis very well”—Harold Seymour.com.