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The betrayal : the 1919 World Series and the birth of modern baseball / Charles Fountain.
Van Pelt Library GV875.C58 F68 2016
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Fountain, Charles, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)--History.
- Chicago White Sox (Baseball team).
- World Series (Baseball) (1919).
- World Series (Baseball).
- Baseball--Corrupt practices--United States--History.
- Baseball.
- Baseball--United States--History.
- Baseball--Corrupt practices.
- History.
- United States.
- Genre:
- History.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 290 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2016]
- Contents:
- Introduction: 1919 and its legacies
- "Honorable Joes"
- The Prince of Fixers
- Baseball at war
- Brothers and enemies
- The conversations
- Losing the Series
- The end of the Series
- The cover-up begins
- The newspapers try to figure it out
- "It Ain't True, Is It Joe?"
- The Judge
- Judgment
- Timeless Joe
- Epilogue: Baseball is fine.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780199795130
- 0199795134
- OCLC:
- 907446425
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