Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963.
First Edition. Hardcover.
First Edition, Second Printing. The First Printing was released in August of 1963, the Second Printing was released in September of the same year.
The story of the scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation’s leading gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to Cincinnati. The author describes the tense negotiations between players and fixers, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the historical conditions that made the fix attractive and possible.
Item #9010975-5/8 x 8-3/8", black & green cloth with white and green print, x, 302pp, index, 8pp black & white photographs.
Cloth bright, tight, square, clean of owner’s marks, some toning to leaves, very good indeed in dust wrapper with wear to edges and folds and a small triangle of surface missing front panel, with original price of $4.95 still present, and in protective mylar.
Price: $50.00