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A review by sheltzer
Hunting A Detroit Tiger by Troy Soos
3.0
Mickey Rawlings is accused of shooting the head of the IWW union in self-defense, although he knows he didn't do it. The police consider it a shut case and unless Mickey can find definitive proof that someone else was involved, he won't be able to clear his name. Mickey winds up as a pawn in the battle between the baseball owners and players during the fledgling labor movement.
This one was not my favorite, although it may be colored by my recent reading of The Daring Ladies of Lowell, which also covered the same subject matter. Like Mickey Rawlings himself, I have a hard time getting behind unionized baseball players when the working conditions for children were terrible. There was almost a little too much going on between the labor movement, suffrage movement and the Detroit auto-factories that no subject was scratched very deeply.
However, as always, the baseball details are wonderful and Mickey is a truly delightful protagonist.
This one was not my favorite, although it may be colored by my recent reading of The Daring Ladies of Lowell, which also covered the same subject matter. Like Mickey Rawlings himself, I have a hard time getting behind unionized baseball players when the working conditions for children were terrible. There was almost a little too much going on between the labor movement, suffrage movement and the Detroit auto-factories that no subject was scratched very deeply.
However, as always, the baseball details are wonderful and Mickey is a truly delightful protagonist.