num_pages: 363
description: Who took money? Who threw games, and which games did they throw? The story of the eight White Sox players who were either aware of or party to a conspiracy to throw the 1919 World Series has been elevated into one of the most enduring legends of American sports history. 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 OUTand Phil Robinson’s FIELD OF DREAMS. In BURYING THE BLACK SOX, Gene Carney reveals what else happened and answers the questions that fascinate any baseball fan wondering about baseball’s original dilemma over guilt and innocence. Who else in baseball knew that the fix was in? When did they know? And what did they do about it? Carney explores how Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox, and his fellow owners tried to bury the incident and control the damage, how the conspiracy failed, and how "Shoeless" Joe Jackson attempted to clear his name. He uses primary research materials that weren’t available when Asinof wrote EIGHT MEN OUT, including the 1921 grand jury statements by Jackson and pitcher Eddie Cicotte, the diary of Comiskey’s secretary, and the transcripts of Jackson’s 1924 suit against the Sox for back pay. Where Asinof told the story of the eight "Black Sox," Carney explains the baseball industry’s uncertain response to the scandal.
language: English
title: Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
titlecomplete: Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
genres: Sports, Nonfiction, Baseball, History
ratings_count: 97
publisher: University of Nebraska Press