Black Sox in the Courtroom: The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation

ISBN-13: 9780786472680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2013 / 240 str.

William F. Lamb

Opis

A comprehensive, nonpartisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed. This book does it. The narrative of events has been crafted from surviving fragments of the judicial record, contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the proceedings, museum archives and, occasionally, the literature of the Black Sox scandal. Preceding the account of judicial events are a brief overview of the baseball gambling problem, a summary of the 1919 Series, and post-Series events that presaged revelations of the Series fix.