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The Manager Who Disappeared
by Michael J. Bielawa
FATE :: March 2008
Connecticut’s shore has always been shrouded in the supernatural. Weird stories churn with the moontides of Long Island Sound, from ghost ships and haunted lighthouses to sea serpents. This waterway, measuring roughly 110 miles long and 21 miles at its widest, was eerily identified on maps during America’s Colonial period as “The Devil’s Belt.” Maybe the peculiar place name originated with the Sound’s western entrance being dubbed “Hell’s Gate,” or perhaps because its many coves and islands were frequented by mooncussers and pirates.
One of the greatest mysteries associated with the waters off Connecticut’s coast is a tale that once generated headlines across North America, but today is little remembered: the unsolved disappearance of Arthur Irwin, manager of the Hartford Senators minor league baseball team.
On Saturday, July 16, 1921, the 63-year-old Irwin boarded the steamship Calvin Austin out of New York City bound for Boston. The last time anyone saw Irwin was just before midnight.
When the steamer pulled into Boston Harbor, Irwin was not in his cabin. A search of the ship proved fruitless. It was assumed Arthur Irwin either fell or for some reason jumped overboard and drowned; Irwin’s body was never recovered. For all intents and purposes the manager had simply vanished. This, then, is the mystery of Arthur Irwin, a popular gentleman friends and family thought they knew well. Soon they would discover he was a man who carried a secret......Read the rest of this article exclusively in the March 2008 issue of FATE!
