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Here is a sports-mystery novel about the Negro League, taking place in 1946 and narrated by the main character, Carl “Moonbeam” Slyder, second baseman for the fictional Jersey City Bluebirds.
Modeled on Buck O’Neil, the philosophical “star” of Ken Burns’ documentary on American baseball, the good-natured, thoughtful Moonbeam gets involved in solving the murder of another, younger player, handsome, mysterious Buster Fenton, an ambitious home run hitter with a future in the Major Leagues. Buster, however, has gotten involved with a white woman, whose husband, as it turns out, has him killed--by strangulation--near Ebbets Field in Brooklyn...
Here is a sports-mystery novel about the Negro League, taking place in 1946 and narrated by the main character, Carl “Moonbeam” Slyder, second baseman for the fictional Jersey City Bluebirds.
Modeled on Buck O’Neil, the philosophical “star” of Ken Burns’ documentary on American baseball, the good-natured, thoughtful Moonbeam gets involved in solving the murder of another, younger player, handsome, mysterious Buster Fenton, an ambitious home run hitter with a future in the Major Leagues. Buster, however, has gotten involved with a white woman, whose husband, as it turns out, has him killed--by strangulation--near Ebbets Field in Brooklyn...