NOW IT CAN BE TOLD: THERE WAS MORE TO BLACK SOX SCANDAL [Corrected 05/ 19/06]

From: Evansville Courier & Press | Date: May 16, 2006| Author: Gordon Engelhardt, Staff writer | Copyright information

Susan Dellinger's original intent was simple enough: to honor her grandfather, Baseball Hall of Famer Edd Roush, with a memoir.

But that wasn't enough to whet the appetite of half a dozen publishers, who rejected her proposals on three different occasions in three different decades -- the 1970s, '80s and '90s. But her ties with the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) finally helped her land a deal with Emmis Books in Cincinnati, which published "Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Rou...

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