{"product_id":"double-play-on-the-red-line-9780883784341","title":"Double Play on the Red Line","description":"Traveling up and down Chicago's elevated train system's Red Line, Ratan, a professor of sports journalism, puzzles through a near-lynching of a peanut vendor at Wrigley Field. At first, the peanut vendor, Ernie, is hesitant to share much. What he does share includes the following: he played for the Kansas City Monarchs of the Negro Leagues; he served his country's military in the Korean War; after the war, his smooth-fielding and power-hitting attracted the attention of the Cubs ownership; he was destined to be one of the first ten Black baseball players in the Major Leagues at a time in America's history when black lives mattered only so far as they entertained whites or enhanced the economic value of the country's capitalist engine; and he never played a single game in Wrigley Field because he was convicted of murder.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDr. Rajesh C. Oza has contributed to \u003ci\u003eLiving in America\u003c\/i\u003e and written \u003ci\u003eGlobalization, Diaspora, and Work Transformation\u003c\/i\u003e; \u003ci\u003eSatyalogue \/\/ Truthtalk; \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e P.S., Papa's Stories.\u003c\/i\u003e He writes columns and book reviews for \u003ci\u003eIndia Currents \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eKhabar Magazine.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDouble Play on the Red Line \u003c\/i\u003eis inspired by his daughter's experience with Northwestern University's Innocence Project. He and his family immigrated to Chicago when the astronauts landed on the moon and the Cubs had a momentous late-season collapse. Since 1969, the number of incarcerated Americans has increased fivefold, one percent of whom are wrongfully convicted.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Third World Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51661468336402,"sku":"9780883784341","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_de507b98-86ea-4a09-a5e2-e330bb786f11.jpg?v=1760444684","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/double-play-on-the-red-line-9780883784341","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}