12. If there had been a sellout, as Comiskey so strongly indicated, Austrian was not going to argue the point!”.

As rumors of White Sox corruption swirl after Game Five, Buck Weaver tells Scooter, Bucky, and other kids that he (Weaver) has to stand up for his teammates during troubled times. See the Chicago Tribune, May 4, 1919. 1. None of the other surviving Black Sox players would speak to Asinof about the fix, while the in-the-know gamblers besides Attell were long dead. 6.

Page 180: “Kid Gleason looked at [Comiskey] and felt frightened for himself.

45. A linchpin of the film’s sympathetic treatment of fix conspirator Eddie Cicotte is a scene set late in the 1919 season wherein club boss Comiskey holds 29-game winner Cicotte to the letter of their purported 30-win bonus agreement.

26. The inane claim that Billy Maharg and Peaches Graham were the same person was invented by Black Sox criminal defense lawyers in Chicago, not Philly sportswriter Isaminger who knew both men.

As Kerr warms up for Game Three, he recalls the first major league game he ever attended: a no-hitter thrown by now-manager Kid Gleason in a victory over the celebrated Cy Young: Fact: Kerr was 2 years old when Gleason quit pitching in 1895, and Gleason never threw a no-hitter against Young (or anyone else) during his big leagues career. See Dickey Kerr’s SABR BioProject article by Adrian Marcewicz. At this, Buck Weaver rises to protest his innocence, complain about his not being able to testify, etc.

13. Fact: Jake Daubert, the Reds second batter, singled to right-center, sending Rath third whence he scored on a sacrifice fly hit by next Reds batter Heinie Groh, as per the Game One scorecard that Sayles had in his possession while making Eight Men Out.

Want more articles? A photo-diagram shows the entrance to the train shed at Union Station, where Policeman W. J. O'Brien killed Earl Albitz after a battle that started in the station in 1939. The film has Cicotte removed by manager Gleason from Game One after surrendering a fourth-inning triple to Reds pitcher Dutch Ruether. Page 177: Presents as fact the Jackson claim that he was promised non-prosecution by Austrian prior to his grand jury appearance. According to BoxRec, Maharg fought as a lightweight (135 pounds). Note: According to the grand jury testimony of Eddie Cicotte, McMullin was actually one of the fix instigators. A man stands in the floodwaters at Union Station on July 21, 1936, after a water main broke. Page 35: Nat Evans “approved” of the Rothstein plan to place $40,000 in the safe of the Congress Hotel and “anticipated no trouble doing that in Chicago.”, 3.

Page 261: “Billy Maharg … had been mixed up in the fight game as a middleweight.” Fact: The weight limit for middleweight boxers is 160 pounds. Page 60 and thereafter: Chronic misspelling of Cincinnati pitcher Dutch Ruether’s surname. Facts: Apart from a handful of Hugh Fullerton columns and a few by others, Series fix rumors were largely ignored by the sporting press and by baseball fans.

Asinof also gets his title wrong. Page 153: “Chief Justice Charles MacDonald [sic] of the Criminal Courts Division, an ambitious man, was clearly eager to ride an investigation for whatever it was worth. After we won the World Series in 1917, he splurged on a case of champagne.” To fit his portrayal of movie villain Comiskey as a “cheap bastard,” Sayles moved the event to 1919, made the champagne flat, and presented it as a substitute for (fictional) cash bonuses promised the Sox players for winning the 1919 AL pennant. Page 270: Like other commentators, Asinof misapprehends the significance of part of Judge Friend’s instructions to the jury on the issue of intent. Page 35: Telephone conversation between Rothstein and oil tycoon Harry Sinclair about the teams playing in the 1919 Series. See 49, above. 9.

See again, Carney, Burying the Black Sox, 193-198, and Hoie, “1919 Baseball Salaries,” 29-30. See the Chicago Evening American, September 30, 1920.

Page 43: Gandil had to place his own Series bets with a “second-rate gambler he knew, fully aware that such a tactic only added to the possible exposure of the fix.”, 7. 44, No.

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