It was a well-kept secret for 64 years. After his wife, Marjorie, died in in 2003, Michigan author and adventurer Clayton Klein discovered a trove of startling information involving her friendship in the late 1930s and early 1940s with Hall-of-Fame baseball player Hank Greenberg. Boxes of memorabilia, including a five-year diary kept from 1935-1939, revealed just how well acquainted Marjorie and Hank became. A Well-Kept Secret covers Detroit Tigers history from 1923 to 1947. It includes chapters on Tiger Hall-of-Famer ...
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It was a well-kept secret for 64 years. After his wife, Marjorie, died in in 2003, Michigan author and adventurer Clayton Klein discovered a trove of startling information involving her friendship in the late 1930s and early 1940s with Hall-of-Fame baseball player Hank Greenberg. Boxes of memorabilia, including a five-year diary kept from 1935-1939, revealed just how well acquainted Marjorie and Hank became. A Well-Kept Secret covers Detroit Tigers history from 1923 to 1947. It includes chapters on Tiger Hall-of-Famer Charlie Gehringer, who grew up in the author's hometown, and a chapter on Hall-of-Fame pitcher for the Cleveland Indians, Robert Feller, a former nemesis and later friend of Greenberg.
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