Four years ago this month, the Baltimore Orioles and Chicago White Sox played a baseball game at Camden Yards with zero fans, the only time this has happened in Major League Baseball's 150-year history.
Freddie Gray, an African American resident of Baltimore, died April 19, 2015 after he sustained injuries to his neck and spine while in police custody. Following Gray's death, there were protests throughout the city that turned violent in the days leading up to the game between the Orioles and White Sox April 29, 2015.
Kevin Cowherd, the author of "When the Crowd Didn't Roar: How Baseball's Strangest Game Ever Gave a Broken City Hope," knew that time in Baltimore's history -- and Major League Baseball's history as well -- was something he needed to write about.
