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The headlines proclaimed the 1919 fix of the World Series and attempted cover-up as "the most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!" First published in 1963, Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic. Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged with the nation's leading gamblers to throw the Series in Cincinnati. Mr. Asinof vividly describes the tense meetings, the hitches in the conniving, the actual plays in which the Series was thrown, the Grand Jury indictment, and the famous 1921 trial. Moving behind the scenes, he perceptively examines the motives and backgrounds of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible. Here, too, is a graphic picture of the American underworld that managed the fix, the deeply shocked newspapermen who uncovered the story, and the war-exhausted nation that turned with relief and pride to the Series, only to be rocked by the scandal. Far more than a superbly told baseball story, this is a compelling slice of American history in the aftermath of World War I and at the cusp of the Roaring Twenties.

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You know you've written a good book when people are still talking about it 60 years later.Six decades after it was first published, Eight Men Out remains the most popular account of the 1919 White Sox throwing the World Series. It's not hard to see why. Asinof's prose is brilliant, deftly conveying a sense of the character of the men involved against the cultural backdrop of post-WWI America and all of its contradictions. Unlike so many other baseball historians, Asinof uses statistics strategically and sparingly, and refrains from hero worship at all costs. The men described here are flawed and human, and there are really no good guys or bad guys - though Rothstein surely feels like Mephistopheles.The greatest testament of the success of this book is its continued popularity despite its obvious flaws. It's no secret that Asinof fudged things a little bit here and there to help push the story along. He also apparently possesses the uncanny ability to enter the thoughts of long-deceased historical figures. Some have termed this book "historical fiction" as a result - though, in all honesty, the story is too complex and there are too many characters to fit this book into that category.What is absolutely clear is that this is the best baseball book written before Lawrence Ritter's famous interviews. Asinof may have gotten a few details wrong here and there, but he also got quite a bit right, and demonstrates a deep understanding of contemporary newspaper articles, court documents and the culture of the sport in a very different era. He might not care for footnotes (the historian's crutch), but there is no doubt that he has done his research and knows his subject matter intimately.When your book inspires dozens of historians to prove you wrong, you know you've done something right.

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