ere is a sports-mystery novel about the Negro League, taking place in 1946 and narrated by the main character, Carl €œMoonbeam€ Slyder, second baseman for the fictional Jersey City Bluebirds. Modeled on Buck O€™Neil, the philosophical €œstar€ 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. 

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