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The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?
Language: en
Pages: 257
Authors: Sean Deveney
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-10-02 - Publisher: McGraw Hill Professional

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IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . . the untold story of baseball’s ORIGINAL SCANDAL Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918—and get aw
Black Sox in the Courtroom
Language: en
Pages: 238
Authors: William F. Lamb
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-03-29 - Publisher: McFarland

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A comprehensive, non-partisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book provides it. The
The Betrayal
Language: en
Pages: 317
Authors: Charles Fountain
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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A new account of one of the most famous scandals in sports history shows how the 1919 fixing of the World Series forever changed the way America's pastime was b
The Battle that Forged Modern Baseball
Language: en
Pages: 332
Authors: Daniel R. Levitt
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2012-03-09 - Publisher: Ivan R. Dee

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In late 1913 the newly formed Federal League declared itself a major league in competition with the established National and American Leagues. Backed by some of
Baseball Meets the Law
Language: en
Pages: 336
Authors: Ed Edmonds
Categories: Sports & Recreation
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-03-04 - Publisher: McFarland

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Baseball and law have intersected since the primordial days. In 1791, a Pittsfield, Massachusetts, ordinance prohibited ball playing near the town's meeting hou