Shadow ball
Subtitle: a novel of baseball and Chicago
By: by Peter M. Rutkoff.
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Jefferson, N.C
Language: eng
Number of pages: 228
Subjects: Foster, Rube, 1879-1930 -- Fiction.; Memphis Minnie, 1896-1973 -- Fiction.; Comiskey, Charles A. -- Fiction.; Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) -- Fiction.; African American baseball players -- Fiction.; Baseball players -- Fiction.; Blues musicians -- Fiction.; Baseball teams -- Fiction.; Riots -- Fiction.; Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.
Genres: Fiction.
Description: "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.