num_pages: 100
description: James Sturm pens this richly evocative graphic novel set in the 1920s. The Stars of David, a barnstorming Jewish baseball team, travel from town to town earning a living by playing local squads. They all sport beards, a gimmick to attract patrons but when financial difficulties threaten to end their season they cast their lot with a Chicago promoter who has just seen the hugely successful German silent film Der Golem... With the golem, a baseball game is transformed into a mythical pageant. Fear and curiosity fills the stadium, but it also stokes the flames of anti-Semitism. Winning the game for the Stars of David becomes less important then surviving it. With a sepia-tinted cinematic style, this compelling book reminds us that making it home is at the heart of baseball.
language: English
title: The Golem's Mighty Swing
titlecomplete: The Golem's Mighty Swing
genres: Fiction, Historical, Graphic Novels, Baseball, Jewish, Sports, Historical Fiction, Comics, Graphic Novels Comics, Sequential Art
ratings_count: 643
series: Americana
publisher: Drawn and Quarterly