Saying It's So
Subtitle: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (Sport and Society)
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: December 6, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252027659
Subjects: Sports & Outdoor Recreation; Baseball; Sociology Of Sports; Sports & Recreation; Sports; Baseball - General; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings; (1919); Chicago White Sox (Baseball te; Chicago White Sox (Baseball team); Corrupt practices; History; United States; World Series (Baseball)
First sentence: "Reducing events to stories and getting stories into print," writes the historian Robert Darnton, "is a matter of cultural fit-of narrative conventions and newsroom traditions that work as a way of imposing form on the booming, buzzing confusion of the day's events."