"[Offers a history of the sports scandal when] eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein."--Provided by publisher.
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call number/section: 796.35
subjects: chicago white sox (baseball team), history, world series (baseball), (1919), baseball, history, united states