You want baseball and true crime?
Bad check cashing?
Stolen cars?
Japanese Aggression?
Escaped Convicts?
Outlaw Baseball in Arizona?
Old Shanghai?
Crooked US Marshalls?
Bad Checks?
Illegal Slot Machines?
Check out these two related articles I did:
#1
Roy Counts: Crime, Punishment & Outsider Baseball
#2
Jack Riley: The last season of the Shanghai City League