About this title: 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.
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Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Very Good. Great condition for a used book! Minimal wear. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Edition: Owl Book ed. Illustrated.
Binding: Trade paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1988
ISBN-13:9780805003468ISBN:0805003460
Description: Fine. No dust jacket as issued. Minute amount of curling on one front corner. No creases on covers. No creases on spine. Text is clean and bright. Binding is tight. Trade paperback (US). Glued binding. 302 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. read more
Description: Good. 1988-Paperback----Used-Good-Hall Street Books proudly ships from Brooklyn, NY. All orders are processed and shipped within 24 hours, M-F. 100% money back No-Worry guarantee with expedited delivery and delivery confirmation available. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1988-04
ISBN-13:9780805003468ISBN:0805003460
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Description: Asinof, Eliot with intro by Stephen Jay Gould., Henry Holt & Co. "An Owl Book", 1987, c1987, 3rd printing, illus. soft cover (trade paperback), vg+, 302 pp with index, B&W photographic illus., 8vo, ISBN: 0805003460, "The fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to Cincinnati" read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Date Published: 1988-04
ISBN-13:9780805003468ISBN:0805003460
Description: Very Good. This is a nice paperback copy. Binding is tight and square. No names, no marks, no stickers. Text is clean and bright. Careful packaging and fast shipping. We recommend PRIORITY MAIL for even faster delivery! read more
"Although it is impossible to know how much of this book romanticizes the real story, it is convincing, and a detailed account of the story that can be best described to Brazilians as the story behind the ghosts on the movie "Field of Dreams". Much of the book is narrated as a thriller, and even though everybody will know how the story ends before it even begins, it captures the reader's attention from start to finish. I had trouble putting it aside every time I got to it."
"This was a terrific book especially for anyone who enjoys baseball history.
Considering what sparse records exist about the events and the trials I think Asinof does a masterful job of constructing the story of all the involved parties including multiple gamblers, players, owners, commissioners, judges, etc. The list of people whose point of view is presented honestly in a nuanced and sensitive way is truly astounding. Even more astounding is that the entire account doesn't seem more muddled. Asinof maintains clarity through the entire complex tale.
I'm not sure if Asinof has a vested interest in portraying one side as right (or better) than another but the story definitely comes of with Buck Weaver as a very sympathetic character followed by the rest of the ballplayers except for Chick Gandil, who is portrayed as much of a swindler as he is a ballplayer vs. the portrayal of the rest of the baseball players as athletes first.
Either way I found the story infinitely fascinating with intrigue and suspense packing every page. Truly a great baseball book and the reference book for anyone who wants to know about the 1919 Black Sox scandal."
"Nearly perfect. Simultaneously nothing fancy and an impressive trick: deep research, great story, superhuman humanity. Asinof is sympathetic to the Sox without over-reading anybody, fitting the entire affair into the context of the day. Decent movie, from what I remember, but the turns and betrayals and forces at work are so complex--and Asinof follows them all neatly, keeping them properly sorted--that I'm a little afraid to watch it again, even though I very much want to. Page turner, start to finish, even when the story moves into the courtroom."
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