Asinof, Eliot

Eliot Asinof was born in the year of the ill-fated World Series fix. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1940, he played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He wrote numerous books, including "Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series", and a variety of plays for television and motion pictures. He lived in Ancramdale, New York, in a house he built with his son.