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The betrayal : the 1919 World Series and the birth of modern baseball /
In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of 20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favor...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Oxford University Press,
[2015]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of 20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favored, Chicago lost the Series five games to three. Although rumors of a fix flew while the series was being played, they were largely disregarded by players and the public at large. It wasn't until a year later that a general investigation into baseball gambling reopened the case, and a nationwide sca. |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (290 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780199795222 0199795223 |