Spitballs and Holy Water — James F. Donohue

It is the roaring Twenties, days of soaring fortunes and diamond dust for the greatest-baseball-team-ever 1927 New York Yankees - and days of Jim Crow and dusty anonymity for the barnstorming Black baseball clubs of America. Along comes Sister Timothy, a spirited Black nun with a sublime sense of public relations and a God-given talent for the pitched ball, and the stage is set for the epic sports confrontation of the age: Sister Tim and Co. vs The Yankees, sponsored by the Catholic Church and the Imperial Dragon of the KKK, with a million dollars on the line, and Al Capone insuring the bet.