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"Charles Albert "The Old Roman" Comiskey was a larger-than-life figure--a man who had precision in his speech and who could work a room with handshakes and smiles. While he has been vilified in film as a rotund cheapskate and the driving force, albeit unknowingly, behind the actions of the 1919 White Sox, who threw the World Series (nicknamed the "Black Sox" scandal), that statement is far from the truth"--
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Film about the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox scandal. The young, idealistic White Sox players who, despite being pennant winners, are treated with disdain by their penny-pinching owner/manager. Ripe for a money-making scheme, the demoralized team agrees to throw the World Series. But when they're defeated, a couple of sports writers smell a fix and a national scandal explodes.
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"This book is the exciting story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history-the Black Sox scandal-continued for over a year following the "fixed" World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge. It is a story of gamblers and crooks; a story of teammates betraying one another; a story of investigations and cover-ups"--
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"Eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The players were banned from organized baseball. But what if the Black Sox scandal had never happened? This book provides an alternative history of the American League, the White Sox, and the banned players from 1919 through 1932"--Provided by publisher.
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The White Sox baseball team from Chicago became known as the Black Sox in 1919 due to their unclean uniforms. This film exposes the corrupt events of the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds who won nine games to one. When professional gamblers became involved, court action resulted and the White Sox players were banned from participation in future games.
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"A comprehensive, nonpartisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book does it. The narrative of events has been crafted from surviving fragments of the judicial record, contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the proceedings, museum archives and, occasionally, the literature of the Black Sox scandal."--Provided by publisher.
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