Dead Ball (The Harvey Blissberg Mysteries #5)

By: R. D. Rosen

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Synopsis: Blissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who&’s on the verge of making historyFifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls &“sad man-ism&” when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team&’s star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio&’s &“unbreakable&” fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving racist threats, such as a decapitated lawn jockey with a note reading, &“escape retribution.&” Would Blissberg mind playing bodyguard for a while? When Cooley&’s streak ends shy of DiMaggio&’s record, the threats and hate mail continue, suggesting that there&’s more at stake than preserving a white man&’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&’s neck, and if he has to murder a few ex-ballplayers on the way—so be it.