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Death Row All Stars baseball team was full of convicts who played for their lives
sport is almost a matter of life or death. But for one unique baseball team, it was more important than that.The Wyoming State Penitentiary All Stars was a team that featured only the hardest of hardened criminals.For the team’s first game on July 18, 1911, the 12-man roster included three rapists, a forger, five thieves and three killers.One of those convicted murderers was star player Joseph Seng, sentenced to death for killing his lover’s husband.The Carbon County Journal’s write-up of the game read: “Joseph Seng, who was convicted of murder in the first degree and sentenced to death, played a classy game all the way through.