Dead Ball

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Publication Year:
2013

ISBN-13: 9781480405806

<DIV><b>Blissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who&rsquo;s on the verge of making history</b></div><DIV></div><DIV>Fifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls &ldquo;sad man-ism&rdquo; when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team&rsquo;s star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio&rsquo;s &ldquo;unbreakable&rdquo; fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving racist threats, such as a decapitated lawn jockey with a note reading, &ldquo;escape retribution.&rdquo; Would Blissberg mind playing bodyguard for a while?</div><DIV>&#160;</div><DIV>When Cooley&rsquo;s streak ends shy of DiMaggio&rsquo;s record, the threats and hate mail continue, suggesting that there&rsquo;s more at stake than preserving a white man&rsquo;s supreme achievement. Blissberg follows the trail of clues back into the past, and finds that Moss is not the first Cooley man to be persecuted. A determined psychopath is out for Cooley&rsquo;s neck, and if he has to murder a few ex-ballplayers on the way&mdash;so be it.</div><DIV></div><DIV></div>