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Burying the Black Sox : how baseball's cover-up of the 1919 World Series fix almost succeeded / Gene Carney.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carney, Gene, 1946-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)--History.
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team).
- Baseball--Corrupt practices--United States--History.
- Baseball.
- World Series (Baseball) (1919).
- World Series (Baseball).
- Baseball--Corrupt practices.
- History.
- United States.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, Inc., [2006]
- Summary:
- Presents the definitive history of the entire Black Sox scandal and the attempt to cover it up
- Contents:
- The roster.
- Chronology of key events.
- Preface.
- The trial nobody noticed.
- The World Series of 1919.
- The cover-up.
- Shoeless Joe Jackson's role.
- It comes undone.
- Scandal, trial, consequences.
- Shoeless, Knuckles, and Lefty.
- The other ghosts of summer.
- The fixers.
- Down in history.
- Aftermath.
- Epilog.
- Appendix: Triples in the 1919 World Series.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 345-357) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1574889729
- OCLC:
- 60741993
- Publisher Number:
- 9781574889727
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