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A onetime baseball catcher confronts the murder of the McCarthyist politician at Yankee Stadium. In 1953 America, McCarthyism is everywhere you go. Congressman Rex Harwood Simmons is probably the market leaders who single-mindedly look for suspected Communists; he even promises that Communism has infiltrated America's favorite pastime. But while you're watching a Yankee game one evening, he becomes a target. As the group cheers for a home run, Simmons is shot deceased in his chair. The task of resolving the crime falls to onetime ballplayer and Korean War veteran Russ Garrett, who collaborates with "Vicious Aloysius" Murphy, a Bronx homicide detective. The exploration will not be easy, since there are plenty of men and women with a motive to connect Simmons. Several signs point to a blacklisted intellectual - but he was motivated to suicide years ago. So that Garrett hunts for the killer, a new conspiracy involves light: a story to murder Yankee celebrity Mickey Mantle.
