Saying it's so : a cultural history of the Black Sox scandal /

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Publisher's description: The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in our collective consciousness for more than eighty years. With baseball so closely linked to American val...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Nathan, Daniel A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [2003]
Colección:Sport and society.
Temas:
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team) > History.
Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)
World Series (Baseball) > (1919)
World Series (Baseball)
Baseball > Corrupt practices > United States > History.
Base-ball > Pratiques déloyales > États-Unis > Histoire.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Essays & Writings.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > History.
SPORTS & RECREATION > Baseball > Statistics.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
Baseball > Corrupt practices
United States
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Title Page
  • Copyright Page
  • Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. History's First Draft: News, Narrative, and the Black Sox Scandal
  • 2. Fix These Faces in Your Memory: The Black Sox Scandal and American Collective Memories
  • 3. The Novel as History, a Novel History: Bernard Malamud's The Natural and Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out
  • Illustrations follow page 118
  • 4. Off the Bench: Historians Take a Swing at the Black Sox Scandal
  • 5. Idyll and Iconoclalsm: Retelling the Black Sox Scandal in the Eighties
  • 6. Dreaming and Scheming: The Black Sox Scandal at the End of the Twentieth CenturyConclusion
  • Notes
  • Index

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