Traces the brief professional baseball career of Native American Louis Francis Sockalexis, discussing his childhood, the impact of alcoholism and racism on his career, and how he inspired the name of the Cleveland Indians. (view table of contents)

Traces the brief professional baseball career of Penobscot Native American Louis Francis Sockalexis, discussing his active childhood, the impact of alcoholism and racism on his career, and how he posthumously inspired the name of the Cleveland Indians. 50,000 first printing.

Product Description: "Mose YellowHorse's 1920 fastball traveled "in the neighborhood of ninety-five miles an hour," and Todd Fuller's bio of YellowHorse is a similarly powerhouse affair. Avid and loving in the tribute it pays to this too-neglected American original, but willing to distinguish Mose the myth from the everyday Mose the man, this deeply researched and widely encompassing journey through baseball, politics, poetry, prose, stats, tribal life, and comic strip shenanigans is surely Fuller's equivalent of having all the bases loaded...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)