EPILOGUE: Landis kept his word, ordering the destruction of any evidence that Cooper ever played a major league game.  His efforts to erase Cooper’s legacy were aided by the player himself, since after his long walk through Chicago, he simply disappeared.

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Interestingly, about ten years after the Chicago showdown, rumors started circulating around Midwestern feed stores about a farmer from Broken Bow, Nebraska who once whittled a canoe with a pocketknife and lassoed a bronco with a shoelace… but that’s another story.