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On December 2, 1946 I was born to Ralph Richard ‘Blackie’ Schwamb and Nellie Staub a Minnesota lumber camp girl with Hollywood looks and starlet dreams. Individually and as a couple those dreams led nowhere. The highlight of my first five years was visiting a stranger on the wrong side of a table at San Quentin.
This is a fascinating look at the life of Blackie and post
war L.A. This is not a tale of redemption.
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Wrong Side of the Wall: The Life of Blackie Schwamb, the Greatest Prison Baseball Player of All Time by Eric Stone
uniboomer, October 28, 2007
On December 2, 1946 I was born to Ralph Richard ‘Blackie’ Schwamb and Nellie Staub a Minnesota lumber camp girl with Hollywood looks and starlet dreams. Individually and as a couple those dreams led nowhere. The highlight of my first five years was visiting a stranger on the wrong side of a table at San Quentin.This is a fascinating look at the life of Blackie and post
war L.A. This is not a tale of redemption.
(8 of 13 readers found this comment helpful)