Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago
Language: English
Published by McFarland, 2001
- First Edition
- Softcover
- Used
Seller: Mike's Baseball Books, Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.Mike's Baseball Books
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
Condition: Used - Near fine
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In the summer of 1919, three men (two white, one black) decide the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the 20th Century to sign a black player. You have Rube Foster, owner of the black Chicago American Giants, Charles Comiskey, owner of the White Sox, and Sam Weiss, their silent go-between. Blues, baseball, race relations, love, hope, and despair ring loud in this tale. One of the few Baseball Fiction books published by McFarland. First Edition in Near Fine Condition. I have around 250 books on the Negro Leagues and Black Sports, about 150 Baseball Novels and Mysteries, and over 2,300 Baseball Publications in stock. Discounts available when you purchase multiple items on the same order.
Seller Inventory # ABE-1784120429494
- Title
- Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago
- Author
- Rutkoff, Peter M.
- Publisher
- McFarland
- Publication year
- 2001
- Condition
- Near fine
- Dust jacket
- No Jacket
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0786409819
- ISBN 13
- 9780786409815
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Printing
- 1st Printing
- Item weight
- 318 grams
- Dimensions
- 15.24 centimeters width by 22.86 centimeters height by 1.17 centimeters depth
- Seller catalogs
- BASEBALL NOVEL OR MYSTERY, BLACK SPORTS AND THE NEGRO LEAGES
In the summer of 1919 three men (two white, one black) decide that the Chicago White Sox will be the first major league team in the twentieth century to sign a black player to a major league contract...
Set before the broad shoulders of Chicago, Shadow Ball tells the story of Rube Foster, African American owner of the Chicago-American Giants; Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox; and Sam Weiss, their silent go-between. Their plans are complicated by the eruption of the August 1919 race riot in Chicago, as seen and heard by Kid Douglas, a Mississippi blues singer newly arrived from the Delta. Blues, baseball, race-relations, love, hope and despair ring loud in this tale.
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Mike's Baseball Books
Chula Vista, CA, U.S.A.
AbeBooks seller since April 18, 2001
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I sell baseball fiction and nonfiction out of my home. I have a large inventory of adult novels, mysteries, juvenile series, children's titles, pulps, comics, humor, anthologies, poetry and plays. I have other sports fiction as well, football, basketball, golf, as well as many boys juvenile sport series. In nonfiction I carry team histories, biographies, history of baseball, international baseball, faith and religion in sports, the Hall of Fame, the World Series and All-Star Games, economics and the law of sport. I also have a large collection of the Sporting News Guides, Record Books, Dope Books, etc, please ask if you are looking for a specific year. I am always looking to purchase additional inventory whether one book or an entire library.…
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