The Kansas City Cowboys, Johnny D. Boggs
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The Kansas City Cowboys, Johnny D. Boggs
Language
eng
Index
no index present
Literary Form
fiction
Main title
The Kansas City Cowboys
Oclc number
972200751
Responsibility statement
Johnny D. Boggs
Series statement
A Circle V western
Summary
Seventeen-year-old Silver King dreams of becoming a working cowboy. His mother, however, has pushed him to be a baseball player -- and King certainly has the arm to be a star pitcher. When the National League forms a team in Kansas City in 1886, both mother and son get their wishes. King is signed to pitch for the fledgling team -- the Kansas City Cowboys -- and the rookie's teammates will include a Rhode Island shortstop who pretends to be the son of a well-known Kansas lawman; a black cowboy working at a meat-packing plant who is passes off as a Cherokee Indian to get around professional baseball's agreement not to play blacks against whites; and two catchers who take King under their wing: an overweight, hard-drinking baseball veteran and a journeyman minor-leaguer who prefers pushing cattle and chasing after gold. The summer will teach Silver King what it takes to be a baseball Cowboy and a working cowboy. And the Kansas City Cowboys and their rowdy fans will show the world just how Western things can get on a baseball diamond
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- Kansas City (Mo.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Western stories
- Western fiction
- Kansas City Cowboys (Baseball team) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Pitchers (Baseball) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Cowboys
- FICTION + Westerns
- Discrimination in sports -- Fiction
- Baseball players
- Cowboys -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Mentoring -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Baseball players -- Fiction
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- Kansas City (Mo.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century
- Western stories
- Western fiction
- Kansas City Cowboys (Baseball team) -- Fiction
- Fiction
- Pitchers (Baseball) -- Fiction
- Historical fiction
- Cowboys
- FICTION + Westerns
- Discrimination in sports -- Fiction
- Baseball players
- Cowboys -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Mentoring -- Fiction
- Large type books
- Baseball players -- Fiction
- Content1
- Author1
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