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Baseball historian Scott Longert will discuss his new book Love and Loss: The Short Life of Ray Chapman on Saturday, September 28th at 2 pm at Wade Chapel in Lakeview Cemetery. If you are unfamiliar with Lakeview Cemetery there are two gates: one on Mayfield Rd. and the other on Euclid Ave. Once you are in the cemetery there is clear signage directing you to Wade Chapel.The son of a coal miner from a small Illinois town, Cleveland Indians shortstop Ray Chapman lived the American dream until his untimely death at age twenty-nine. In his brief life, he reached the pinnacle of baseball success as the best shortstop in the American League. While many professional ballplayers struggled with meager salaries, the handsome Chapman had married heiress Kathleen Daly, one of Cleveland’s wealthiest women. With a child on the way and an executive job in the offseason, Chapman was moving toward a privileged place in society until an errant fastball fractured his skull and ended his life the next day.
Today, people visit Chapman’s impressive grave in Cleveland’s Lake View Cemetery, leaving baseballs and gloves in his memory. Though gone over a hundred years, he is well remembered as a Cleveland icon. This book goes far beyond the well-worn accounts of Chapman’s untimely death to illustrate the fullness of his short life.
Scott H. Longert is the author of numerous books on Cleveland baseball history from the post–Civil War era through the middle of the twentieth century. He has an MA in American history from Cleveland State University and has appeared on numerous broadcast media shows, on baseball documentaries, and at the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Event address:
12316 Euclid Ave
Cleveland, OH 44106
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Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Lakeview Cemetery, 2505 Mayfield Rd, Cleveland, OH 44106-24ND, United States,Cleveland Heights, Ohio
