Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago

by Peter M. Rutkoff

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...

• 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