The story of "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and his White Sox teammates purportedly conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds has lingered in our collective consciousness for a century. Daniel A. Nathan's wide-ranging history looks at how journalists, historians, novelists, filmmakers, and baseball fans have represented and remembered the scandal. Nathan's reflections on what these different cultural narratives reveal about their creators and eras shape a fascinating study of cultural values, memory, and the ways people make meaning.| Cover Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents Acknowledgments Introduction 1. History's First Draft: News, Narrative, and the Black Sox Scandal 2. "Fix These Faces in Your Memory": The Black Sox Scandal and American Collective Memories 3. The Novel as History, a Novel History: Bernard Malamud's The Natural and Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out Illustrations follow page 118 4. Off the Bench: Historians Take a Swing at the Black Sox Scandal 5. Idyll and Iconoclalsm: Retelling the Black Sox Scandal in the Eighties 6. Dreaming and Scheming: The Black Sox Scandal at the End of the Twentieth Century Conclusion Notes Index | Winner of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award, 2003. Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award, 2003. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006. Named Book of the Year by both the North American Society for Sport History and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. — North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
North American Society for Sport History Book Award, 2003 — North American Society for Sport History
Winner of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award, 2003. Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award, 2003. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006. Named Book of the Year by both the North American Society for Sport History and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. — A Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Winner of the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport Book Award, 2003. Winner of the North American Society for Sport History Book Award, 2003. A Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2006. Named Book of the Year by both the North American Society for Sport History and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport. — North American Society for Sport History and the North American Society for the Sociology of Sport
|Daniel A. Nathan is the Douglas Family Chair in American Culture, History, and Literary and Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. He is the editor of Rooting for the Home Team: Sport, Community, and Identity and coeditor of Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime.