Baseball in Evansville

Stories From the Cutting Room Floor

Category: Death

  • Diamond Death – 1895

    Although not part of Evansville’s professional baseball history, a tragic event occurred on a city baseball field in 1895. The event, death by shooting, is documented in the Robert Gorman and David Weeks book, “Death at the Ballpark,” a journal of more than 2,000 deaths that have occurred on baseball diamonds in the United States.…