THE BINGO LONG TRAVELING ALL-STARS AND MOTOR KINGS

by William Brashler ‧ RELEASE DATE: July 18, 1973

Halfway between a circus and a baseball team, veteran star catcher Bingo Long's barnstorming outfit drives several hundred miles and plays several games a day against anything from local hick white outfits, out to beat the black pros, to the best colored teams in the midwest. They drive fast, sleep where they can (often as not, in the prejudiced hinterlands, in one of their two cars), and get their kicks in the rare stopovers in the big cities where they booze and sex it up with the money they hustle up on the road. But money or morale difficulties constantly beset the team just when the going gets good -- from fatigue, from injuries, from their former boss who is not above using a little muscle to bring his ""runaway"" players back to his stable, finally from the white leagues who sign up the best of Bingo's ""All-Stars,"" as Bingo could have been signed up had he been born, say, just ten years later. A fast-paced breezy book about the black boys of summer.

Pub Date: July 18, 1973

ISBN: 0252062876

Page Count: -

Publisher: Harper & Row

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: July 1, 1973

Categories: FICTION