![]() ![]() Bound in the original two-tone cloth, lettered in green and white. Classic account of the 1919 World Series fix and trial involving: Shoeless Joe Jackson. ![]() "First Edition" is so stated on the copyright page. This copy has the publisher's "Advance Copy for Examination Only" ink stamp on the front free endpaper. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1963. ![]() Now, after painstaking research, Eliot Asinof has reconstructed the entire scene-by-scene story of this fantastic scandal in which eight Chicago White Sox players arranged withe nation's leading gamblers to throw the series to Cincinnati." Size: 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Dj is nicely preserved in a brand new protective mylar plastic cover! 302 historical pages! "'The most gigantic sporting swindle in the history of America!' These headlines proclaiming the 1919 fix of the World Series startled millions of readers and focused the attention of the entire country on one of the most incredible episodes ever to be enacted in the public eye. Minor edge and corner wear to the dj, chipping at the tail of the spine, lightly scuffed and scratched, corners are bumped and rubbed, some shelf wear, ex-library with the usual library markings, overall a nice used first edition (second printing)! Black and green cloth with white lettering on the front board and spine. ![]()
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