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Originally Posted by jgmp123
I believe it is correct. He was also best known as the Phillies manager that had the racially charged showdown with Jackie Robinson...
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I couldn't find anything about chapman being a sheriff but wiki has this:
In June 1936, Chapman – then hitting .266[3] and expendable with the arrival of DiMaggio[4] – was traded to the Senators. The trade was ironic in that the player the Yankees received in return was Jake Powell, who would become infamous for a 1938 WGN radio interview in which he stated that he liked to crack blacks over the head with his nightstick as a police officer in Dayton, Ohio during the off-season. Furthermore, earlier in the 1936 season, Powell had purposely collided with Hank Greenberg, the Detroit Tigers' Jewish first baseman, breaking Greenberg's wrist and ending his season after only 12 games.[1]