Burying the Black Sox : how baseball's cover-up of the 1919 World Series fix almost succeeded / Gene Carney.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Carney, Gene, 1946-
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : Potomac Books, Inc., [2006], ©2006.
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) > History.
Baseball > Corrupt practices > United States > History.
World Series (Baseball) > (1919)
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Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:xvi, 363 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
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.