"With their World Series win in 2005, the Chicago White Sox finally erased the so-called curse of the "Black Sox," those players who threw the 1919 World Series and created a blot on baseball's permanent record. But is that all there is to the story? Just as Watergate can't be summed up with "five burglars caught," "eight men out" doesn't begin to describe the Black Sox."
"While most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to "fix" the 1919 Series, many would be surprised to learn that it took nearly a year to uncover the Black Sox Scandal. Burying the Black Sox is the first book to focus on the cover-up that kept the plot from the American public until almost another whole baseball season had been played and to examine in detail the way events unfolded as the deception was unraveled. Author Gene Carney thoroughly documents his information and brings together evidence from a wide variety of sources, many not available in previous books examining the subject."
"Carney reveals what else happened and sheds new light on the questions that fascinate any baseball fan wondering about baseball's original dilemma over guilt and innocence. Who else in baseball knew that the fix was in? When did they know? And what did they do about it? Carney explores how Charles Comiskey, the owner of the White Sox, and his fellow owners tried to bury the incident and control the damage, how the conspiracy failed, and how "Shoeless" Joe Jackson attempted to clear his name.
He uses primary research materials that weren't available when Eliot Asinof wrote Eight Men Out, including the 1920 grand jury statements by Jackson and pitcher Eddie Cicotte, material from the diary of Comiskey's secretary, and the transcripts of Jackson's 1924 suit against the Sox for back pay. Where Asinof told the story of the eight "Black Sox," Carney explains the baseball industry's uncertain response to the scandal."--Jacket.
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