Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago
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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.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0786409819
ISBN13:9780786409815
Release Date:April 2001
Publisher:McFarland & Company
Length:232 Pages
Weight:0.05 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"
Age Range:18 years and up
Grade Range:Postsecondary and higher
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