Al Capone played semi-pro baseball in Brooklyn before turning to crime By . Dean Balsamini. Published May 17, 2020. Updated May 17, 2020, 12:17 p.m. ET. Explore More ...

On Oct. 17, 1931, Al Capone was sentenced to 11 years in prison for tax evasion. ... Al Jr., get Chicago Cubs’ Gabby Hartnett to autograph a baseball on Sept. 9, 1931.

In addition, Raines said gangsters like Al Capone would rent out the fourth floor of the Arlington Hotel for six weeks at a time and watch the spring training for Major League Baseball.

American Stories profiles Al Capone, the Prohibition-era face of organized crime. Hailed as an anti-hero, feared as a cold-blooded crime lord, Al Capone’s bootlegging exploits, celebrity and ...

Al Capone sent rocking horses to my uncle, even said in one of the letters that wished he could be my uncle's baseball manager. At the age of five, he said, "That little slugger all grew up." ...

On a line near the very bottom of a 1927 page appeared a terse “Al Capone Chicago,” penned in a style of cursive that Adams said is indicative of the 1920s.