Gene Carney

Gene P. Carney

• School University of Dayton, Webster University
• High School North Catholic High School

• Born May 6, 1946 in Pittsburgh, PA USA
• Died July 5, 2009 in Alaska, USA

Biographical Information

Gene Carney was an author who wrote Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on Players and the Game (1993) and Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded (2005). He was the author of the play Mornings After, about the life of catcher Paddy Livingston.

He was a member of the Society for American Baseball Research and contributed to Baseball Library.

Further reading

‘Pre-eminent authority’ on Black Sox dies