Book summary

As World War I is ending, Mickey Rawlings is the second baseman for the Chicago Cubs. He works well with the shortstop, Willie Kaiser, who unfortunately is the object of misplaced antipathy toward Germany. When Willie is shot in the middle of a Fourth-of-July game, no one is exactly sure why. Although he's no detective Mickey decides to investigate his hunch that Willie's death is linked to a struggle for control of major league baseball.

Media reviews

"...quietly effective portrait of wartime Chicago in the throes of painful German-baiting and on the verge of Prohibition."