The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball

by Charles Fountain

Book Overview

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199795134
• ISBN13: 9780199795130
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 1.31 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.2"