Turning the Black Sox White (eBook)

The Misunderstood Legacy of Charles A. Comiskey

Tim Hornbaker (Autor)

eBook Download: EPUB

2014
400 Seiten
Sports Publishing (Verlag)
978-1-61321-667-5 (ISBN)

Infos

Charles Albert The Old Roman Comiskey was a larger-than-life figurea man who had precision in his speech and who could work a room with handshakes and smiles. While he has been vilified in film as a rotund cheapskate and the driving force, albeit unknowingly, behind the actions of the 1919 White Sox, who threw the World Series (nicknamed the Black Sox scandal), that statement is far from the truth.In his five decades involved in baseball, Comiskey loved the sport through and through. It was his passion, his life blood, and once he was able to combine his love for the game with his managerial skills, it was the complete package for him. There was no other alternative. He brought the White Sox to Chicago in 1900 and was a major influential force in running the American League from its inception.From changing the way the first base position was played, to spreading the concept of small ball as a manager, to incorporating the community in his teams persona while he was an owner, Comiskeys style and knowledge improved the overall standard for how baseball should be played.Through rigorous research from the National Archives, newspapers, and various other publications, Tim Hornbaker not only tells the full story of Comiskeys incredible life and the sport at the time, but also debunks the Black Sox controversy, showing that Comiskey was not the reason that the Sox threw the 1919 World Series.Skyhorse Publishing, as well as our Sports Publishing imprint, are proud to publish a broad range of books for readers interested in sportsbooks about baseball, pro football, college football, pro and college basketball, hockey, or soccer, we have a book about your sport or your team.Whether you are a New York Yankees fan or hail from Red Sox nation; whether you are a die-hard Green Bay Packers or Dallas Cowboys fan; whether you root for the Kentucky Wildcats, Louisville Cardinals, UCLA Bruins, or Kansas Jayhawks; whether you route for the Boston Bruins, Toronto Maple Leafs, Montreal Canadiens, or Los Angeles Kings; we have a book for you. While not every title we publish becomes a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are committed to publishing books on subjects that are sometimes overlooked by other publishers and to authors whose work might not otherwise find a home.

Autor

Tim Hornbaker is a lifelong sports historian and enthusiast who attended his first baseball game at the old Comiskey Park in 1981. Turning the Black Sox White is his third nonfiction title, which also includes Legends of Pro Wrestling. He continues to research sports history and lives in South Florida with his wife, Jodi.Bob Hoie is a baseball historian and member of SABR (Society for American Baseball Research). He has appeared in two documentaries on the Black Sox produced by ESPN (2001, 2005), and another by the MLB Network (2010). His article “1919 Baseball Salaries and the Mythically Underpaid Chicago White Sox” was a finalist for the 2013 SABR Analytics Research Award, and and was the third person to ever win SABR’s Bob Davids Award for meritorious service (1987). Hoie resides in San Marino, California.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 4.3.2014
• Vorwort: Bob Hoie
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Ballsport
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Schlagworte: 1908 • 1918 season • 1919 chicago • 1919 world • 1939 • 1959 • accepting money • american association • American League • authoritative research • Barra • baseball history • baseball's • baseman • black sox • burying • CAP • Charley • chicago cubs • chicago white • Cincinnati Reds • complicated answer • considerable money • cuban • deferments • Dodgers • dominant team • DVD • eight teams • eight white • explanation helped • faithfully reports • fall guy • Federal • Franchise • gamblers • Gambling • history shines • Kansas • league baseball • league champion • league owner • league president • league teams • losers • louis browns • Majors • Manager • Mexican • military drills • minor leagues • Mogul • montville • National League • owners black sox sc • payrolls • pennant races • pennants • penny-pinching • pitcher • player salaries • professional baseball • Reassessment • Reserve Clause • Royals • salary • scandal led • shoeless • skinflint • sox owner • sox players • sox scandal • spending lavishly merely frustrated • spites • Sport • sullying • Supply • ticket prices • tight-fisted • tightfisted • tightwad • underpaid • white sox • white stockings
• ISBN-10: 1-61321-667-X / 161321667X
• ISBN-13: 978-1-61321-667-5 / 9781613216675