Davis Sterling, scion of Houston's leading newspaper family, was enjoying the playboy life until his father challenges him to make something of himself. Always a talented writer, his rebellious streak leads him to sports writing, a craft without the status in the 1940s that it has today, and one he knew would drive his farther crazy. With the help of the Houston Star's elevator man, he finds a team worth covering. But he never thought it would lead him to meet the first white man to play in the Negro Baseball Leagues. And he didn't expect it to bring him the woman of his dreams.Brilliant, beautiful, and black, Leola Jones always knew she was destined for more than raising babies in her rural Florida hometown. But she never dreamed she'd become the first woman owner of a professional sports team in America. Barnstorming begins in Eatonville, Florida, one of America's original "Brown Towns,"...
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