Billy Jurges's guest appearances

Billy Jurges

Most Notorious! A True Crime History Podcast

Ben Thompson

Butch Cassidy

Margalit Fox

James Stewart

David Meyers

Theodore Roosevelt

Robert E. Lee

Harper Lee

Patrick Henry

Lizzie Borden

Darren Schaefer

John Norman Collins

Paul Kahan

Mark Sebastian

Michael McCarthy

OwlTail

Jack Bales

In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on baseball. The famously beautiful showgirl took it poorly, marching into his hotel room with a revolver in her purse. Both were wounded in the ensuing struggle, but Jurges refused to press charges. Even without their star shortstop, Chicago made it to the World Series, only to be on the wrong end of Babe Ruth's legendary Called Shot.My guest is Jack Bales, author of "The Chicago Cub Shot For Love: A Showgirl’s Crime of Passion and the 1932 World Series". He shares details from his book, just in time for the 70th anniversary of this infamous intersection of baseball and true crime (which happened on July 6th, 1932). The author's website: http://WrigleyIvy.com/The author's publisher page: https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467148481You can also buy the book on Amazon, here: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094X2TFYQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0Become a Most Notorious patron: https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the summer of 1932, with the Cubs in the thick of the pennant race, Billy Jurges broke off his relationship with Violet Popovich to focus on baseball. The famously beautiful showgirl took it poorly, marching into his hotel room with a revolver in her purse. Both were wounded in the ensuing struggle, but Jurges refused to press charges. Even without their star shortstop, Chicago made it to the World Series, only to be on the wrong end of Babe Ruth's legendary Called Shot. My guest is Jack Bales, author of "The Chicago Cub Shot For Love: A Showgirl’s Crime of Passion and the 1932 World Series". He shares details from his book, just in time for the 70th anniversary of this infamous intersection of baseball and true crime (which happened on July 6th, 1932). The author's website: <a href="http://WrigleyIvy.com/" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">http://WrigleyIvy.com/</a> The author's publisher page: <a href="https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467148481" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.arcadiapublishing.com/Products/9781467148481</a> You can also buy the book on Amazon, here: <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094X2TFYQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B094X2TFYQ/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_tkin_p1_i0</a> Become a Most Notorious patron: <a href="https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.patreon.com/mostnotorious</a> Learn more about your ad choices. Visit <a href="https://megaphone.fm/adchoices" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">megaphone.fm/adchoices</a>

251: The Shooting of Chicago Cubs Shortstop Billy Jurges w/ Jack Bales - A True Crime History Podcast