Outlines the story and filming of the movie, `Eight Men Out,' directed by John Sayles. The 1919 World Series; Black Sox scandal; Fixed World Series game between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds.Siebert,...
Even a casual baseball fan can tell you a little something about the Black Sox scandal of 1919. The very fiber that held the game together was challenged when the news broke a year after the series that a fix was on from the first inning of game. Eight members of the participating White...
Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were found to have accepted money to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. The “Black Sox” scandal was one of the biggest black eyes ever laid upon U.S. professional sports, and the effects of the events have been dramatized in major Hollywood f...
"'Meyer Wolfsheim? No, he's a gambler.' Gatsby hesitated, then added coolly: 'He's the man who fixed the World's Series back in 1919.' "The idea staggered me. I remembered, of course, that the World's Series had been fixed in 1919, but if I had thought of it at all I would...
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1919: Black Sox scandal Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were found to have accepted money to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. The “Black Sox” scandal was one of the biggest black eyes ever laid upon U.S. professional sports, and the effects of the events have been dramat...
The first pitch of World Series Game 1 is scheduled for 7:03 p.m. CT on Friday night at Minute Maid Park.
1919: Black Sox scandal Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were found to have accepted money to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series. The “Black Sox” scandal was one of the biggest black eyes ever laid upon U.S. professional sports, and the effects of the events have been dramat...
One of the first great baseball books written for adults was Eliot Asinof's "Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series." Originally published more than 40 years ago, "Eight Men Out" is still the book to read about the Black Sox, because (a) nobody's yet trumped Asim...
The game known as "Tri-Dimensional Chess", which is shown in many Star Trek episodes, was reconstructed by a fan of the series, Andrew Bartmess, and has then become a popular Chess variant. "A conspicious symbol for the fatal key note of the film is the image of two men playing a...