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

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 ...