A bit of sad news… Gene Carney passed away. For those who aren’t familiar with Gene, he was a baseball historian, author and an APBA player. He penned two books, Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on Players and the Game and Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded. SABR awarded him the Ritter for the top book the year on the deadball era.
I didn’t know Gene personally but he and I corresponded over email a few times. I wrote a short piece about his OFAS Sweet 16 Tournament. The Baseball Library has quite a compendium about and by Gene Carney and shows his knowledge of the history of the game of baseball and dedication to making sure we don’t forget it.
Ted Knorr has a nice tribute to Gene on his blog, Glory of Their Times.
RIP Gene Carney
