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If you are interested in an item from one of our catalogues or our website and would like more information before ordering it, please give us a call one of our salespeople will be happy to speak with you and answer any questions that you might have. See Grobani 7-67.Ī near-fine signed copy, with only light edge-wear to original dust jacket. Listed among the 50 essential baseball books by the Society for American Baseball Research, Eight Men Out was adapted into a critically praised John Sayles film in 1988. Say it ain’t so.’ As The Chicago Herald and Examiner reported the next day, Jackson replied, ‘Yes, kid, I’m afraid it is” ( New York Times). He tracked down a Chicago physician who said he was the boy who… had tugged at Shoeless Joe Jackson’s sleeve and pleaded, ‘Say it ain’t so, Joe. While researching this definitive history of the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, Eliot Asinof uncovered “one of the most famous exchanges in sport. Octavo, original green and black cloth, original dust jacket.įirst edition of Asinov’s compelling and now classic account of the 1919 “Black Sox” scandal, with eight pages of photographs, signed by him on the title page. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, (1963). Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. “The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record…a vividly, excitingly written book.“SAY IT AIN’T SO, JOE”: FIRST EDITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT, SIGNED BY THE AUTHORĪSINOF, Eliot. Far more than a superbly told baseball story, this compelling American drama will appeal to all those interested in American popular culture. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the backgrounds and motives of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. In 1919, American headlines proclaimed the fix and cover-up of the World Series as “the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America.” In this painstaking review, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation’s leading gamblers to throw the series to Cincinnati.

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