Title: Shadow ball
Subtitle: a novel of baseball and Chicago
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.
Subjects: Fiction, Chicago White Sox (Baseball team), Baseball players, African American baseball players, Baseball teams, Riots, Blues musicians, Fiction, historical, African americans, fiction, Chicago (ill.), fiction
Places: Chicago (Ill.)
People: Rube Foster (1879-1930), Charles A. Comiskey, Memphis Minnie (1896-1973)