Saying It's So
Subtitle: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal (Sport and Society)
Edition: New Ed edition
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Published: August 10, 2005
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780252073137
Subjects: Baseball; Sports & Recreation; Sports; USA; American - General; Baseball - Essays & Writings; Baseball - History; Sports & Recreation / Baseball / Essays & Writings
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."