The J R Baseball Murders

By: Frank Thomas Smith

Narrated by: Virtual Voice

The author of the J R Murders remembers his own childhood in Brooklyn when Jackie Robinson was a godly brown figure in a Dodgers uniform – before the Dodgers absconded to Los Angeles, where the outfield pebbles were known to be small but made of gold. It hadn't been easy for Jackie as the first Black (Negro then) to play in the major leagues. Branch Rickey, the owner of the Brooklyn Dodgers, knew what he was getting into and once decided, he went full speed ahead.
Read the story here about how two other Negro players with the initials J R and who also played on Negro League teams, were murdered, creating the suspicion that they were warnings to Branch Rickey not to bring Jackie up to the Major Leagues, or he would be next.
Branch brings aboard Private Eye Darell Stark and his Negro assistant Jim McKey to investigate and, if possible, solve. How to find out? Start on Page One.