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1 de abr. de 2011 · First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players ...
In 1919, American headlines proclaimed the fix and cover-up of the World Series as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America." In this painstaking review, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the scandal, in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the series to Cincinnati. Asinof vividly ...
21 de abr. de 2007 · Asinof would write for the base newspaper, raking the muck of Adak, and Hammett would advise him: “You’ve brought me the what, Eliot, now go back and bring me the why.” It would be fine advice for a writer who would later produce not just Eight Men Out but also one of the finest baseball novels ever written, Man on Spikes.
3 de mar. de 2019 · In conjunction with SABR’s Eight Myths Out project, here are specific examples of factual errors or misinformation that appear in Eight Men Out, both the 1963 best-selling book written by Eliot Asinof and the 1988 film directed by John Sayles.. Certain entries on this list may seem like pedantic nitpicking: surnames misspelled, Abe Attell’s boxing record exaggerated, erroneous player ...
This is the central thesis of Eight Men Out: Charles Comiskey’s “ballplayers were the best and were paid as poorly as the worst,” as Eliot Asinof wrote. That couldn’t be further from the truth. We can’t climb into the heads of the Black Sox to know exactly why they threw the World Series.
7 de ago. de 2018 · Eliot Asinof, Harold N. Cropp (Narrator) 4.12. 74 ratings10 reviews. In 1919, American headlines proclaimed the fix and cover-up of the World Series as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America." In this painstaking review, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the scandal, in which eight Chicago ...
24 de abr. de 1998 · "Asinof's Man on Spikes, a 1955 publication, marks him as one of the few writers ahead of his time."— Marvin Miller, from the Foreword " Man on Spikes [is] a serious baseball novel, lucidly and dramatically written."— Douglas Wallop, New York Herald Tribune " Man on Spikes is a plain and honest book, the first realistic novel I can remember having read."—
