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Shadow ball : a novel of baseball and Chicago
- Title
- Shadow ball : a novel of baseball and Chicago / by Peter M. Rutkoff.
- Author
- Rutkoff, Peter M., 1942-
- Publication
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2001], ©2001.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | PS3618.U78 S53 2001 | Off-site |
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- Description
- 228 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "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 imagines a story involving 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."--BOOK JACKET.
- Subjects
- Comiskey, Charles A > Fiction
- Baseball teams > Fiction
- Chicago (Ill.) > Fiction
- Baseball players > Fiction
- African American baseball players > Fiction
- Foster, Rube, 1879-1930 > Fiction
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) Fiction
- Riots > Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Memphis Minnie, 1897-1973 > Fiction
- Baseball stories
- Blues musicians > Fiction
- Genre/Form
- Historical fiction.
- Baseball stories.
- ISBN
- 0786409819 (softcover : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2001020239
- OCLC
- ocm45917121
- SCSB-4126053
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries