Jr Reynolds: 516 books

Maria Teresa de Filippis was from a wealthy family in Naples, Italy. Ironically her brothers gave impetus to her racing career. They had a bet among themselves as to how fast their sister could drive. In the late 1940s Maria entered endurance races of increasing difficulty. She won her first motorsports...

New York City Boxing Directory (1885-1960) was compiled from countless pages of New York City directories and U.S. Censuses from the 19th and 20th Centuries. Readers and reference enthusiasts may use the eBook to delve into additional family research. Address information is useful for tracking down...

Continental Charters had only recently purchased the C-46A commando plane from the United States government. It was the second flight for the Miami based company since June 1951. There was a delay of several hours in Miami before takeoff for Pittsburgh. My e-book looks at the disappearance of the...

Carlos Paula was a hard-hitting outfielder from Cuba. He made his way through the ranks of the Washington Senators' minor league affiliates. He arrived for spring training in 1954 but was cut when the major league team broke camp for the regular season. Paula was called up by the big league Nationals...

Major League Baseball, the Philadelphia Phillies and the Philadelphia Police Department have kept hidden a dark secret since 1959. During August 1959 an 18-year-old prostitute came forward with an allegation that she had been solicited by three major leaguers for sex. The sexual contact occurred in...

The Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire happened on a Saturday inside the Asch Building in what is now Greenwich Village. Multiple tenants occupied the twelve floors of the building adjacent to Washington Place and Green Street. It was about 4:30 p.m. when a blaze shot up from beneath one of the cutting...

In 1939 and 1940 men were arrested who comprised a ring of extortioners who preyed on homosexual men. The ring extended throughout the United States. However it was concentrated largely in Manhattan, New York and Chicago. The trio of men who were the gang's leaders were imprisoned in Sing Sing...

Louis "Pretty" Amberg and his brothers, Joseph, Hyman and Oscar were likely the most feared organized crime figures in Brooklyn's Jewish neighborhoods. They were active from the mid 1920s through the 1930s. Hyman Amberg was one of a trio of men who attempted to escape from the Tombs Prison in...

Colleen Marie Applegate/Shauna Grant underwent a personality change during her final year in high school in Farmington, Minnesota. Replacing the wholesome, All-American girl was someone her parents did not know or understand. Colleen began to smoke and use marijuana. She dropped her regular friends...

Brown University was the center of a mid-1980s prostitution scandal. University administrators at the elite Ivy League school had contacted Providence Police authorities by November 1985. Specifically, they reported attempts to coerce female students at Brown into prostitution. Then in March 1986...

An incident of horse doping at a stable inside Jamaica Racetrack in 1938 brought to mind the laxity with which the sport of horse racing was addressing the doping issue. By the early 20th Century jockey clubs and other organizations had clamped down on horse doping. However by the early 1930s the...

Jacob "the Bum" Wellner was a union official who was renowned for introducing gangsters into the Brooklyn Painters AFL Local 860. By the late 1920s Wellner's group was at odds with Jacob "Little Augie" Orgen. Little Augie's 1927 murder was followed by several mysterious bombings...

Harold Gibbons was a progressive unionist who came to St. Louis during the 1940s. He was considered a likely successor to James Riddle "Jimmy" Hoffa as President of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters until the two labor leaders clashed in 1963. Before this they were a tandem as president and...

Pietro Peter Panto was a union leader who tried unsuccessfully to remove mob control from the loading docks of the Brooklyn shipyards. In July 1939 Panto disappeared after saying goodbye to his girlfriend one morning. He told her he was meeting two men that he didn't trust. Within weeks she contacted...