A much better profile of John Dillinger than that movie Public Enemies

Did anyone see that movie? It came on HBO not too long ago and I couldn’t get through a half hour of it. Just brutal. Anyway, here’s a lot of good research on Dillinger’s history as a baseball player from the Captain’s Log, via The Yankee U and the inimitable James Kannengieser.

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    • I thought it was like laughably bad. All the stupid melodramatic reaction shots in the first 20 minutes, combined with some enormously cliched dialogue, were enough to overwhelm my general appreciation for Johnny Depp and gangster movies.

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