The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?

by Deveney, Sean

• ISBN13: 9780071629973
• ISBN10: 0071629971
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-23
• Publisher: McGraw Hill

Summary

Redefining baseball history, Sporting News writer Sean Deveney details a scandal at the core of baseball's greatest folklore, making the argument that the 1918 Cubs were the first team to throw a World Series- -tied by fate to their series opponents the Red Sox, and to the team they influenced to do the same, the 1919 White Sox.

Author Biography

Sean Deveney has been with The Sporting News since 1999, covering all major sports. Deveney has covered dozens of major championships: the NBA Finals, World Series, Super Bowl, the NCAA Tournament, college football's championship game and the PGA championship. He has written about icons such as Michael Jordan and Tiger Woods, and less-than-iconic topics including Roger Clemens and the inside world of sports agents. He is the Sporting News' baseball insider...After graduation from Northwestern University in 1997, Deveney worked as the sports editor for The Sentry-News in Slidell, LA, where he won a Louisiana Press Association award for best feature story. A native of Lynn, Mass., who grew up with a passion for the Red Sox and limited talent as a second baseman, Deveney also has been honored in The Best American Sports Writing anthology for a story about Pedro Martinez. He has been a regular guest on ESPN2's First Take, ESPN Classic, Comcast Sports Chicago Tribune Live, with appearances on Fox News, CNN, CBS and MSNBC. He appears on numerous radio shows around the country each week..

Table of Contents

Foreword by Ken Rosenthal	p. ix
Author's Note	p. xiii
Fixes and Curses: Aboard a Train with the White Sox	p. 1
Luck: Charley Weeghaman	p. 13
Preparedness: Harry Frazee and Ed Barrow	p. 25
Discipline: Five Days in Spring Training with Ed Barrow	p. 38
Sacrifice: Grover Cleveland Alexander	p. 49
Morality: Max Flack	p. 61
Cheating: Hubert ôDutchö Leonard	p. 72
Usefulness: Newton D. Baker	p. 85
Loyalty: The Texel	p. 97
Strategy: Harry Hooper	p. 109
Money: Recollection of Boston Gambler James Costello	p. 121
Labor: Charley Hollocher	p. 133
Death: Carl Mays	p. 146
World Series, Game 1,Chicago	p. 158
World Series, Games 2 and 3, Chicago	p. 169
World Series, Games 4 and 5, Boston	p. 182
World Series, Game 6, Boston	p. 194
History: Throwing the World Series	p. 204
Notes	p. 215
Bibliography	p. 231
Index	p. 235
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