IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF "EIGHT MEN OUT" . . .
the untold story of baseball's ORIGINAL SCANDAL
Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918--and get
away with it?
Who were the players involved--and why did they do it?
Were gambling and corruption more widespread across the leagues
than previously believed?
Were the players and teams "cursed" by their actions?
Finally, is it time to rewrite baseball history?
With exclusive access to surprising new evidence, Sporting News
reporter Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseball's
greatest folklore--in a golden era as exciting and controversial as
our sports world today. This inside look at the pivotal year of
1918 proves that baseball has always been a game overrun with
colorful characters, intense human drama, and explosive
controversy.
""The Original Curse" is not just about baseball. It is a
sweeping portrait of America at war in 1918. . . . In the end, the
proper question is not, 'How could a player from that era fix the
World Series?' It's, 'How could he not?'"
--Ken Rosenthal, FOX Sports, from the Introduction
"Sean Deveney plays connect-the-dots in this intriguing account
of a possible conspiracy to throw the 1918 World Series. Thoroughly
researched and well written, "The Original Curse" is a must-read
for baseball fans and anyone who loves a good mystery. Is Max Flack
the Shoeless Joe of the 1918 Cubs? Deveney lays out the case and
let's readers decide if the fix was in."
--Paul Sullivan, Cubs beat writer, "Chicago Tribune"
"This book gives the reader a fun and honest look at baseball as
it used to be-- the good guys, the gamblers, the cheaters, the
drunks, the inept leaders. But, more than that, it puts those
characters into the context of Chicago, Boston and America at the
time of World War I, and you wind up with a unique way to explain
the motivations of those characters."
--David Kaplan, host, "Chicago Tribune Live" and "WGN's Sports
Central"
"Deveney's painstaking study of the 1918 World Series between
the Cubs and Red Sox argues that the Black Sox scandal was not an
aberration and might have had an antecedent. Deveney's scholarship
does not detract from his ability to spin a good tale: his tendency
to imagine players' conversations will remind readers of Leigh
Montville's "The Big Bam: The Life and Times of Babe Ruth."... A
welcome companion to Susan Dellinger's "Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd
Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series," Deveney's
book contributes greatly to our understanding of this decisive
period in baseball and American morals."
--"Library Journal"
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