Miko Kings: An Indian Baseball Story

by LeAnne Howe

Book Overview

Miko Kings is set in Indian Territory's queen city, Ada, Oklahoma, during the baseball fever of 1907, but moves back and forth from 1969 during the Vietnam War to present-day Ada. The story focuses on an Indian baseball team but brings a new understanding to the term "America's favorite pastime." For tribes in Indian Territory, baseball was an extension of a sport they'd been playing for centuries before their forced removal to Indian Territory...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1879960788
• ISBN13: 9781879960787
• Release Date: October 2007
• Publisher: Aunt Lute Books
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"