The betrayal : the 1919 World Series and the birth of modern baseball / Charles Fountain.
In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of 20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favor...
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