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Cover for Peter M. Rutkoff's Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago.
A Trip to the Library

A Trip to the Library: Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball and Chicago

Baseball as fiction is always, in my opinion, hard for an author to pull off. The main reason for this is that the author doesn’t let baseball tell the story. Instead, they feel the need to insert some sort of extraneous element that isn’t really necessary to the story. Shadow Ball: A Novel of Baseball […]

Posted on August 6, 2025July 25, 2025 Author Bill Thompson Comment(0)

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