Description: This book, dramatized for a movie in 1988, covers the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series. "As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome."--"The Boston Globe." of photos.
Brief description: Eliot Asinof was born in the year of the ill-fated World Series fix. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1940, he played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He wrote numerous books, including Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, and a variety of plays for television and motion pictures. He lived in Ancramdale, New York, in a house he built with his son.
Review Quotes:
"The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record ... A vividly, excitingly written book: " --Chicago Tribune
"Dramatic detail ... an admirable journalistic feat." --The New York Times "As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome." --The Boston Globe