num_pages: 256
description: IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . .the untold story of baseballs ORIGINAL SCANDAL Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918and get away with it? Who were the players involvedand why did they do it? Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues than previously believed? Were the players and teams cursed by their actions? Finally is it time to rewrite baseball history? With exclusive access to surprising new evidence Sporting News reporter Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseballs greatest folklorein a golden era as exciting and controversial as our sports world today. This inside look at the pivotal year of 1918 proves that baseball has always been a game overrun with colorful characters intense human drama and explosive controversy.  The Original Curse is not just about baseball. It is a sweeping portrait of America at war in 1918. . . . In the end the proper question is not How could a player from that era fix the World Series? Its How could he not?Ken Rosenthal FOX Sports from the IntroductionSean Deveney plays connect-the-dots in this intriguing account of a possible conspiracy to throw the 1918 World Series. Thoroughly researched and well written The Original Curse is a must-read for baseball fans and anyone who loves a good mystery. Is Max Flack the Shoeless Joe of the 1918 Cubs? Deveney lays out the case and let's readers decide if the fix was in.Paul Sullivan Cubs beat writer Chicago Tribune This book gives the reader a fun and honest look at baseball as it used to be-- the good guys the gamblers the cheaters the drunks the inept leaders. But more than that it puts those characters into the context of Chicago Boston and America at the time of World War I and you wind up with a unique way to explain the motivations of those characters.David Kaplan host Chicago Tribune Live and WGN's Sports Central Deveneys painstaking study of the 1918 World Series between the Cubs and Red Sox argues that the Black Sox scandal was not an aberration and might have had an antecedent. Deveneys scholarship does not detract from his ability to spin a good his tendency to imagine players conversations will remind readers of Leigh Montvilles The Big The Life and Times of Babe Ruth . A welcome companion to Susan Dellingers Red Legs and Black Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series  Deveneys book contributes greatly to our understanding of this decisive period in baseball and American morals. Library Journal
language: English
title: The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?
publisher: McGraw Hill