Max I will never doubt you again. Is that your copy of Plated City. I have only seen one copy for sale (at a ridiculous price from an online bookseller). "Plated" is another book that really should get a lot more attention as important early baseball fiction
Also to take the baseball and race theme back a bit further I have attached a picture from the serialized version of "The Fair Port Nine" published in 1880 in St. Nicholas Magazine. In this version one of the characters is black- I am not sure if this survived the later editions of the story
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