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Saying it's so : a cultural history of the Black Sox scandal
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ISBN: 1283583623 9786613896070 0252091981 9780252091988 0252027655 9780252027659 0252073134 9780252073137 0252027655 9781283583626 6613896071 Year: 2003 Publisher: Urbana : University of Illinois Press,

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Burying the Black Sox : How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
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ISBN: 1597973513 9781597973519 1574889729 9781574889727 Year: 2006 Publisher: Dulles, : Potomac Books Inc.,

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New insight on baseball's most famous scandal


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Black Sox in the courtroom : the grand jury, criminal trial and civil litigation
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ISBN: 129924176X 1476601275 9781476601274 9780786472680 0786472685 Year: 2013 Publisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Company, Inc.,

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A comprehensive, nonpartisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book does it. The narrative of events has been crafted from surviving fragments of the judicial record, contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the proceedings, museum archives and, occasionally, the literature of the Black Sox scandal. Preceding the account of judicial events are a brief overview of the baseball gambling problem, a summary of the 1919 Series, and post-Series events that presaged revelations of the Series fix. The grand jury proceedings, the c


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Under pallor, under shadow : the 1920 American league pennant race that rattled and rebuilt baseball
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ISBN: 1283099489 9786613099488 0803235259 9780803235250 9781283099486 9780803234710 Year: 2011 Publisher: Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,


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When the crowd didn't roar : how baseball's strangest game ever gave a broken city hope
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ISBN: 1496215753 1496215737 1496213297 9781496215734 9781496215758 9781496213297 9781496215741 1496215745 Year: 2019 Publisher: Lincoln ; London ; London : University of Nebraska Press,

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""When the Crowd Didn't Roar" is the first comprehensive account of the most unique Major League baseball game ever played, the crowdless game on April 29, 2015, between the Baltimore Orioles and the Chicago White Sox, as well as the tragic death of Freddie Gray while in police custody that led up to it and the therapeutic effect the game had on a troubled city"--

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