The Rise And Fall Of "Pacer" Smith
American Hauntings Podcast
Cody Beck and Troy Taylor
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 15 October 2024
⏱️ 91 minutes
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Summary
On November 29, 1895, the very first professional athlete in America history to receive a death sentence was executed for the murders- a bloody act that had shocked the Illinois town where he lived. The murders and the hanging that followed two months later left a black mark on the city’s history – and they also left two separate hauntings behind.
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| 0:00.0 | You're going to be here. |
| 0:13.0 | You're going to. |
| 0:15.0 | The... |
| 0:17.0 | You know. |
| 0:18.0 | The... Since the infamous black socks scandal Pete Rose betting on baseball and O.J. Simpson being tried for |
| 0:36.0 | murder, we've often been disappointed by the behavior of sports figures we believed were |
| 0:41.6 | heroes. In truth though, professional athletes getting in |
| 0:45.8 | trouble with the law goes back to the beginning of professional sports and it |
| 0:50.7 | wasn't just throwing games and betting on baseball. |
| 0:55.0 | Like OJ, violent crimes were more common than team owners would have liked. |
| 1:01.0 | During the latter part of the 19th century alone there were four major league |
| 1:05.4 | baseball players charged with murder. Two of them, Edgar McNabb and |
| 1:10.8 | Marty Bergen, killed themselves before they could be brought to trial and |
| 1:14.8 | Charlie Sweeney did a stint behind bars at San Quentin. But on November 29th |
| 1:20.7 | 1895 the very first professional athlete in American history to receive a death sentence |
| 1:27.6 | was executed from the murders of his daughter and sister-in-law. |
| 1:32.1 | A bloody act that had shocked the Illinois town where he lived. |
| 1:36.0 | The murders and the hanging that followed two months later left a black mark on the city's history. |
| 1:42.0 | And they also left two separate hauntings behind. |
| 1:50.0 | Welcome to American Hauntings, the podcast dedicated to the history, hauntings, |
| 1:54.2 | legends, lore, and the dark side of American history. |
| 1:57.7 | And welcome to season 8, Home, which is written and performed by Troy Taylor, that's me, and produced and co-hosted by Cody Bagg. |
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