BASEBALL'S FIRST INDIAN Louis Sockalexis: Penobscot Legend, Cleveland Indian

Born in 1871 on Maine's Penobscot Indian reservation and nephew of a chief, Louis Sockalexis became professional baseball's first American Indian player. Ultimately, his prowess on the diamond inspired the nickname Cleveland's baseball team carries today. This book explores the brilliant but too-brief major league career of the "Deerfoot of the Diamond" at the end of the 1890s, follows his fall to New England's minor leagues, and watches his final return to the reservation in Maine where he continued as a baseball coach and umpire. Hardcover, 208 pages.