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Sex, mutilation and murder in Victorian England. The world's first serial killer covered by the mass media. In the fall of 1888 the most famous serial killer in history viciously attacked women, leaving crime scenes that forever haunted the minds of those who saw them and filled them with a single-minded resolve to apprehend the murderer. They never did. Although the murderer is known throughout the world as Jack the Ripper, the name he used o...

In the early 1870s, baseball was chaos, mired in mismanagement and corruption. William Hulbert, the owner of Chicago's National Association team, believed that a league run efficiently with honest competition would survive and flourish. The inaugural season of the National League is chronicled in this heavily documented work. Despite the setbacks, scandals, and considerable opposition, all thoroughly covered here, the National League survived ...