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1 de mar. de 1995 · Strike Zone. Paperback – March 1, 1995. by Jim Bouton (Author), Eliot Asinof (Author) 4.7 17 ratings. See all formats and editions. In a compelling tale of major league baseball, two men try to reclaim their lives--a minor league player who has one last shot at success and an aging umpire who is planning to fix the game.
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 ...
Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the backgrounds and motives of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible.
Eight Men Out. Hardcover – January 1, 1963. by Eliot Asinof (Author) 4.5 698 ratings. See all formats and editions. An incredibly researched book about the famous Black Sox scandal and 1919 World Series, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the series to the Cincinnati Reds.
1 de jun. de 1994 · Co-authored by former major league pitcher Jim Bouton and Eliot Asinof (author of 'Eight Men Out'). It's a quick read that will keep you interested from the first page. I'd recommend getting yourself lost in this book as soon as you can.
29 de jun. de 1989 · Eight Men Out: Directed by John Sayles. With Jace Alexander, John Cusack, Gordon Clapp, Don Harvey. A dramatization of the Black Sox scandal when the underpaid Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to deliberately lose the 1919 World Series.
