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Eliot Asinof. 4.05. 10,837 ratings391 reviews. 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 ...
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10 de abr. de 2000 · Eliot Asinof’s newest baseball hero left tiny Gandee, Missouri, as John Clyde Cagle Jr., a hard-throwing lefthander who had pitched a perfect game in high school.Now he returns in triumph as the legendary “Black Jack,” superstar of the Los Angeles Dodgers, a stoic, menacing mound demon with a Fu Manchu moustache and a 106-mile-per-hour fastball.
Eliot Asinof was born in the year of the ill-fated World Series fix.After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1940, he played minor league baseball for the Philadelphia Phillies organization. He wrote numerous books, including Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, and a variety of plays for television and motion pictures.He lived in Ancramdale, New York, in a house he built ...
1 de abr. de 2011 · First published in 1963, Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out has become a timeless classic of a scandalous world series.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!" Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of the fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players ...
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 backgrounds and motives of the players and the conditions that made the improbable fix all too possible.
24 de abr. de 1998 · "Asinof's Man on Spikes, a 1955 publication, marks him as one of the few writers ahead of his time."— Marvin Miller, from the Foreword " Man on Spikes [is] a serious baseball novel, lucidly and dramatically written."— Douglas Wallop, New York Herald Tribune " Man on Spikes is a plain and honest book, the first realistic novel I can remember having read."—
