{"product_id":"justice-batted-last-don-zminda-9780252046414","title":"Justice Batted Last: Ernie Banks, Minnie Mi?oso, and the Unheralded Players Who Integrated Chicago's Major League Teams","description":"On May 1, 1951, Orestes \"Minnie\" Mi?oso took the field for the Chicago White Sox and broke the color line for Chicago major league baseball. Ernie Banks integrated the Chicago Cubs two years later. The future Hall of Famers began their Chicago baseball careers against the backdrop of a 1951 race riot in suburban Cicero, where a white mob abetted by local police attacked a building that had rented to Black tenants. \u003cp\u003e Don Zminda's account looks at these interconnected events alongside the little-known chronicle of Chicago's slow track to integrating major league baseball. By the early 1950s, the Cubs and White Sox organizations had become rich in Black and Afro-Latino stars and talented prospects. Unlike Mi?oso and Banks, however, most of these minor leaguers never advanced to the majors or, if they did, it was for little more than a cup of coffee. Zminda also profiles these players, from Charles Pope, the Cubs' first Black signee, to larger-than-life fireballer Blood Burns. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Essential and dramatic, \u003ci\u003eJustice Batted Last\u003c\/i\u003e uses the lives and careers of two Chicago legends to tell a story of integration on and off the diamond. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Don Zminda\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0252046412\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780252046414\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e 3 Fields Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/11\/2025\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.00lbs","brand":"Don Zminda","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451238633727,"sku":"9780252046414","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_964bdf03-2be8-45b6-9c06-7b1cd96cbc9e.jpg?v=1735876876","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/justice-batted-last-don-zminda-9780252046414","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}