Murder at Wrigley Field

The year is 1918, a time of mixed blessings for Mickey Rawlings: He's starting for the Cubs, who are five games ahead of the second-place Giants; he's hitting a career high of .274; and he's got a steady date for the movies. But it's a grim time, too: Americans are dying in European trenches; Major League baseball may be suspended for the duration of the war; and Mickey's best friend--a rookie named Willie Kaiser--has just been murdered.

From speakeasies to the stockyards, from spitballs to silent movies, Mickey's search for answers takes him much further afield than he ever dreamed he'd go--as a ballplayer and as a man.