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Black Sox in the Courtroom : The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation, Paperback / softback Book

Black Sox in the Courtroom : The Grand Jury, Criminal Trial and Civil Litigation Paperback / softback

Paperback / softback

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A comprehensive, nonpartisan account of the judicial proceedings spawned by the corruption of the 1919 World Series is badly needed.

This book does it. The narrative of events has been crafted from surviving fragments of the judicial record, contemporaneous newspaper accounts of the proceedings, museum archives and, occasionally, the literature of the Black Sox scandal.

Preceding the account of judicial events are a brief overview of the baseball gambling problem, a summary of the 1919 Series, and post-Series events that presaged revelations of the Series fix. The grand jury proceedings, the criminal trial, and ensuing civil suits initiated by various of the banned players against the White Sox are then recounted in detail, accompanied by copious source citations.

The book concludes with a survey of how Black Sox-related legal proceedings have been treated in scandal literature.

The book does not purport to be the definitive account of the Black Sox scandal.

Rather, it uniquely presents how the matter played out in court.

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