Eight Men Out
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"Carney said the documents being combed by experts established more firmly than ever that Comiskey and baseball's brass sought to cover up the fix. And, he said, the material erases all doubt that the World Series was in fact corrupted by the gambling conspiracy, which led to the permanent banishment of eight members of the White Sox, including 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson.
"The two boxes of documents were purchased by the museum at auction from an anonymous seller for $100,000 in December 2007 and made available to researchers this spring after being catalogued and copied. Last fall the museum purchased the papers of Eight Men Out author Eliot Asinof, though that material is still being processed." —Mike Dodd, “Unraveling 'Black Sox' mysteries: 90 years later, experts continue to tie up loose ends of scandal,” USA Today, July 29, 2009, p. C6. "The kid pleading with Shoeless Joe Jackson to 'say it ain't so' is one of the most fabled stories in baseball, right up there with Lou Gehrig telling a packed Yankee Stadium he was 'the luckiest man on the face of the earth.'
"Two Chicago attorneys have combed through the papers of the late Eliot Asinof, whose book Eight Men Out portrayed Jackson as a cheat who helped the White Sox throw the 1919 World Series. Their conclusion? It ain't so.
"Not the allegations that got Jackson banished from baseball and locked out of the Hall of Fame. And not even the kid who reportedly tugged at Jackson's sleeve and uttered the famous phrase that appeared in the Chicago Herald and Examiner. The lawyers found no evidence he existed." —Don Babwin, "Lawyers go to bat for Shoeless Joe," The Boston Globe, September 13, 2009, p. D3. Links Related on eAlmanac
The Chicago Black Sox
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Wikipedia article on the Eight Banned Chicago White Sox Players
Chicago Historical Society Web site on the Chicago Black Sox
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"Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series" by Eliot Asinof
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