Hanging Curve:: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery (A Mickey Rawlings Mystery) - Softcover

Soos, Troy

 
9780758288332: Hanging Curve:: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery (A Mickey Rawlings Mystery)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0758288336 ISBN 13: 9780758288332
Verlag: Kensington, 2013

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"Equal parts baseball and mystery are the perfect proportion." --Robert Parker

A Race To Stay Alive

1922. Another year, another team. Utility infielder Mickey Rawlings is now warming the pine for the St. Louis Browns, a team poised to go all the way. Rawlings should be overjoyed with the situation but the lack of playing time has him sneaking off to play incognito in the semi-pros. The competition is just as rough, though. In fact, some of the best players to ever throw a curveball or line up for a swing are his opponents. The only reason they aren't in the majors is because of their team color--black. Turns out that's the least of their worries. When the star pitcher of the Negro East St. Louis Cubs is found lynched after a win, Rawlings has to do everything he can to track down the killer and prevent a repeat of the deadly race riots of 1917. If he can stay alive. . .

Praise for the Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mysteries

"Full of life." --The New York Times Book Review on Hanging Curve

"A richly atmospheric journey through time." --Booklist on Hanging Curve

"A perfect book for the rain delay. . .a winner!" --USA Today on Murder at Fenway Park

"Delightful. . .mixing suspense, period detail that will leave readers eager for subsequent innings." --Publishers Weekly on Murder at Fenway Park

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Troy Soos is a critically acclaimed author, teacher, and former research physicist. He is best known for his Mickey Rawlings series of baseball mysteries. His novels have been reviewed in the New York Times, Boston Globe, and USA Today. Soos is a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Society for American Baseball Research. He currently lives in Lake Howell, Florida (near Winter Park, Florida).

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Spring, 1922. Jazz is hot. Baseball is hotter -- and bitterly segregated. As a major league infielder, Mickey Rawlings has always wanted a chance to match his skills against the very best in the game, black or white. When he gets a chance to play against the East St. Louis Cubs, a black semi-pro team, Mickey willingly risks his career to step across baseball's color line. He soon finds that more than a game is at stake -- and more than his career is at risk -- when one of the Negro League stars is hanged in the ballpark, the victim of a brutal lynching.

As tensions mount in an already divided city, Mickey investigates the murder and sees sides of America that he's never encountered before. While discovering the rich culture of 1920s black society, he also finds destructive forces working their way into the country's mainstream. He is soon in a world where shocking violence and corruption are everyday fare, and justice is hard to find as Mickey enters the most important -- and dangerous -- game of his life...

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Verlag
Kensington
Erscheinungsdatum
2013
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0758288336
ISBN 13 
9780758288332
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
272
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