Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded

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Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded Pub. Date: 2/27/2006 Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.

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Most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to “fix” the 1919 World Series—the Black Sox Scandal. It has been touched upon in classic works of sports history such as Eliot Asinof’s Eight Men Out, referred to in literary classics like W. P. Kinsella’s Shoeless Joe, and has been central to two of the best baseball movies ever made, John Sayles’s Eight Men Out and Phil Robinson’s Field of Dreams.

Many, however, would be surprised to learn that it took nearly a year to uncover the fix. Burying the Black Sox is the first book to focus on the cover-up that kept the fix from the American public until almost another whole baseball season was played, and to examine in detail the way events unfolded as the deception was unraveled. Unlike Eliot Asinof in Eight Men Out, previously the definitive book on the subject, Carney thoroughly documents his information and brings together evidence from a wide variety of sources, many not available to Asinof or more recent writers.

In Burying the Black Sox, Gene Carney reveals what else happened and answers the questions that fascinate any baseball fan wondering about baseball’s original dilemma over guilt and innocence. Who else in baseball knew that the fix was in? When did they know? And what did they do about it? Carney explores how Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox, and his fellow owners tried to bury the incident and control the damage, how the conspiracy failed, and how “Shoeless” Joe Jackson attempted to clear his name. He uses primary research materials that weren’t available when Asinof wrote Eight Men Out, including the 1920 grand jury statements by Jackson and pitcher Eddie Cicotte, the diary of Comiskey’s secretary, and the transcripts of Jackson’s 1924 suit against the Sox for back pay. Where Asinof told the story of the eight “Black Sox,” Carney explains the baseball industry’s uncertain response to the scandal.

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Aiming to supersede Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, veteran baseball researcher Carney unpacks the history of the scandal to reveal new sources and new elements to the tale. Asking who knew what about the fix, when they knew it, and what they did about it, he answers with a fully documented study of scandal and cover-up that should prove essential for all baseball collections. Copyright 2006 Reed Business Information.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781597971089
Publisher: Potomac Books, Inc.
Publication date: 6/30/2007
Pages: 388
Sales rank: 307,211
Product dimensions: 6.00 (w) x 8.90 (h) x 1.00 (d)

Meet the Author

Gene Carney is the author of Romancing the Horsehide: Baseball Poems on Players and the Game and numerous articles in publications ranging from USA Today’s Sports Weekly to academic journals and small magazines. He lives in Utica, New York.

Acknowledgments     vii
The Roster     ix
Chronology of Key Events     xi
Preface     xiii
The Trial Nobody Noticed     1
The World Series of 1919     17
The Cover-Up     26
Shoeless Joe Jackson's Role     61
It Comes Undone     76
Scandal, Trial, Consequences     126
Shoeless, Knuckles, and Lefty     165
The Other Ghosts of Summer     206
The Fixers     236
Down in History     263
Aftermath     284
Epilog     302
Appendix     304
Notes     306
Bibliography     345
Index     358
About the Author     363

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