{"product_id":"9783958594869","title":"Dead Ball","description":"\u003cb\u003eBlissberg returns to baseball to protect a player who’s on the verge of making history\u003c\/b\u003eFifteen years after retiring from baseball, Harvey Blissberg is suffering a bad case of what his girlfriend, Mickey Slavin, calls “sad man-ism” when the owner of his former team, the Providence Jewels, tracks him down. The team’s star, Moss Cooley, is on the verge of shattering Joe DiMaggio’s “unbreakable” fifty-six-game hitting streak. But Cooley has been receiving racist threats, such as a decapitated lawn jockey with a note reading, “escape retribution.” Would Blissberg mind playing bodyguard for a while? When Cooley’s streak ends shy of DiMaggio’s record, the threats and hate mail continue, suggesting that there’s more at stake than preserving a white man’s supreme achievement. Blissberg follows the trail of clues back into the past, and finds that Moss is not the first Cooley man to be persecuted. A determined psychopath is out for Cooley’s neck, and if he has to murder a few ex-ballplayers on the way—so be it.","brand":"Mysterious Press at Bastei Entertainment","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47168322797808,"sku":"9783958594869","price":5.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9783958594869_p0.jpg?v=1763711381","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9783958594869","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}