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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?
- Title
- The original curse : did the Cubs throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and incite the Black Sox Scandal? / Sean Deveney ; foreword by Ken Rosenthal.
- Author
- Deveney, Sean.
- Publication
- New York : McGraw Hill, ©2010.
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Details
- Description
- xiii, 242 pages : illustrations; 24 cm
- Summary
- This book tells the untold story of baseball's original scandal. Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918 and get away with it? Who were the players involved and 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 baseball's greatest folklore in 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. - Publisher.
- Subjects
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- 1 Fixes and Curses: Aboard a Train with the White Sox 1 -- 2 Luck: Charley Weeghaman 13 -- 3 Preparedness: Harry Frazee and Ed Barrow 25 -- 4 Discipline: Five Days in Spring Training with Ed Barrow 38 -- 5 Sacrifice: Grover Cleveland Alexander 49 -- 6 Morality: Max Flack 61 -- 7 Cheating: Hubert Dutch Leonard 72 -- 8 Usefulness: Newton D. Baker 85 -- 9 Loyalty: The Texel 97 -- 10 Strategy: Harry Hooper 109 -- 11 Money: Recollection of Boston Gambler James Costello 121 -- 12 Labor: Charley Hollocher 133 -- 13 Death: Carl Mays 146 -- 14 World Series, Game 1,Chicago 158 -- 15 World Series, Games 2 and 3, Chicago 169 -- 16 World Series, Games 4 and 5, Boston 182 -- 17 World Series, Game 6, Boston 194 -- 18 History: Throwing the World Series 204.
- Call Number
- JFE 14-8214
- ISBN
- 9780071629973 (alk. paper)
- 0071629971 (alk. paper)
- LCCN
- 2009014090
- OCLC
- 318409198
- Author
- Deveney, Sean.
- Title
- The original curse : did the Cubs throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and incite the Black Sox Scandal? / Sean Deveney ; foreword by Ken Rosenthal.
- Imprint
- New York : McGraw Hill, ©2010.
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Research Call Number
- JFE 14-8214