Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series
 

Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series

by Susan Dellinger

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... (read more)

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Disappointing. Although there were a few interesting anecdotes told from the perspective of the great Reds CF Edd Roush (as written by his granddaughter), not much new in this book... should've been a lengthy magazine article. Plus, sloppy editing (e.g., footnotes not numbered correctly) and other errors will annoy the reader.

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