"Retells one of the greatest stories in sports history, one riddled with mythologies, misprisions, and distortions that have accumulated and compounded over the years. Going back to the gambling culture surrounding the game in the days of World War I, Fountain explores with fresh eyes the events that led up to the 1919 World Series, when the players, all hopelessly underpaid by White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, succumbed to the promise--never fulfilled--of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein"--From publisher description.
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