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Loading... Red legs and black sox : Edd Roush and the untold story of the 1919 World Series (edition 2006)by Susan Dellinger
Work InformationRed Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series by Susan Dellinger
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This revisionist account of the 1919 Black Sox World Series, written by Cincinnati Reds star Edd Roush's granddaughter, is two books in one. The first half is a conventional biography of Roush's early years, rich owing to liberal chats with her granddad and grandma, access to the family scrapbook, and family snapshots which are also included. The second half is a minute examination of the Black Sox affair, revisionist in several ways. The author largely skips the usual suspects; Arnold Rothstein, Sleepy Bill Burns, Abe Attell, and Billy Maharg are introduced but relatively quickly share the stage with lesser known cliques from Cincinnati, St. Louis, and, oddly, Des Moines. She closes the book by advancing evidence that two Reds pitchers were also in thrall to gamblers and pleading in the alternative that the White Sox didn't throw the Series, but even if they had, the Reds were the better team and would have won the Series anyway. She appends a symposium of quotations from various individuals who agree with her thesis. Unsurprisingly, most of them are Reds players. One can believe all this or not, but the main problem with the book is that it ought to have been two books. Roush deserves a full biography, not one that ends when he was all of twenty-six. And the rehash of the investigations and trials of the affair are probably of at least as much interest to the true crime enthusiast as any baseball audience. ( ) no reviews | add a review
The 1919 World Series is baseball's black eye, resulting in eight members of the White Sox being banned from the game for life for intentionally losing the series. Moviegoers recognize Shoeless Joe Jackson, the slugging outfielder for the Sox, from such popular films as Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams. And most baseball aficionados have seen photos of the grim-faced baseball commissioner who banned the offending players from the game. But there is another side to the story, revealed for the first time in Red Legs and Black Sox. Author Susan Dellinger focuses on the series from the Cincinnati Reds' perspective, as told by her grandfather, Edd Roush, star player of the 1919 Reds. This is a story that is far more complicated than previous movies and books have alluded to, involving fixes on both teams -- and corruption right down to the leagues themselves. No library descriptions found. |
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