Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal

From: Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society | Date: July 1, 2003| Author: McKinney, Gordon | Copyright information

Saying It's So: A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal. By Daniel A. Nathan (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2003. Pp. viii, 285. Cloth, $39.95).

Daniel Nathan, an Assistant Professor at Skidmore College, has written an entertaining and sophisticated account of the attempt to understand the Black Sox scandal of 1919. This group of related essays is not another attempt to bring order to the confusing events that took place before and during the 1919 World Series. Instead it i...

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