Hanging Curve: A Mickey Rawlings Baseball Mystery Hardcover Book With Dust Jacket..  Kensington Books.  This Book Is In Very Good Condition.  No Writing, No Dogeared Pages.  No Rips Or Tears.  Does Look Like A Piece Of Tape On Front Of Dust Jacket And a Black Mark On The Pages On Bottom.See   Pictures

Mickey Rawlings has just been traded from the NL Cincinnati Reds to the AL St. Louis Browns, a proverbial team on the rise, but is stuck on the bench. Melvin Greene approaches him to play in an exhibition under an assumed name (Mickey Welch) for Enoch's Elcars, a semipro team from East St. Louis, Illinois. Mickey agrees, but comes to regret it after going 0 for 4 with 3 strikeouts against Slip Crawford, a ringer for the Elcars' opponents, the East Saint Louis Cubs, who win the game 9-5 despite several unsavoury incidents.