Indian Summer The Forgotten Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball

"A monumental and valuable piece of previously untold baseball history. A must for any student of the game."--Bill Madden, baseball columnist for the New York Daily News and co-author of Zim: A Baseball Life "Through the years I had heard of the East Coast Indian who was a great athlete, but I didn't know his name, his sport or tribe, or when he was active. Sockalexis was a baseball star when my father was an impressionable teenager, and must have been a role model.... I would like to see this book in every tribal school and library."--Grace Thorpe, Native American activist and daughter of Jim Thorpe Praise for My Father's Gun "Haunting ..."--The New York Times Book Review "A muscular yet meticulous evocation of old New York that recalls Luc Sante's Low Life.... Written with grace, seriousness, and historical understanding."--Kirkus Reviews "A rich and riveting narrative.... Nuanced, colorful, frank, free of all the usual cop cliches."--Newsday "As good as the best cop fiction of Joseph Wambaugh, Dorothy Uhnak and Richard Price."--USA TodayMcDonald, Brian is the author of 'Indian Summer The Forgotten Story of Louis Sockalexis, the First Native American in Major League Baseball' with ISBN 9781579545871 and ISBN 1579545874.