Base Ball: A Journal of the Early Game, Vol. 6, No. 1 (Spring 2012)

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Baseball historian Peter Morris is a two-time winner of the Seymour Medal for best baseball book of the year and was an inaugural winner of the Henry Chadwick Award for lifetime achievement in baseball research. He lives in Haslett, Michigan.

Edited by Peter Morris

Format: softcover (7 x 10)
Pages: 108
Bibliographic Info:
Copyright Date: 2012
ISSN:
pISBN: n/a
eISBN: 978-1-4766-2198-2
Imprint: McFarland

Editor’s Note
William F. Lamb 3

“Call the Game!”: The 1917 Fenway Park Gamblers Riot
Jacob Pomrenke 5
1919 Baseball Salaries and the Mythically Underpaid Chicago White Sox
Bob Hoie 17
The Bad News Bees: Salt Lake City and the 1919 Pacific Coast League Scandal
Larry R. Gerlach 35
They Were Black Sox Long Before the 1919 World Series
Timothy Newman and Bruce Stuckman 75
The People of Illinois v. Edward V. Cicotte, et al.: The Initial Grand Jury Proceedings in the Black Sox Case
William F. Lamb 86
For the Record: The Movies, Eight Men Out and Historical Accuracy
Rob Edelman 102

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