Black Sox
- Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
- In revisiting the 1919 World Series scandal, baseball historian Carney argues persuasively that the infamous fix consisted of two conspiracies: the unsuccessful attempt of players, managers and owners to hide the fact that a handful of crooked White Sox had thrown the Series; and the largely successful effort of Charles Comiskey, owner of the team, and Judge Landis, baseball's first Commissioner, to ensure that the expulsion of eight accused
- The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
- Andrew (Rube) Foster was a star pitcher, winning manager, and founder of the Negro National League. But was he better than Cy Young, Walter Johnson, or any other hurler? Cottrell (1920: The Black Sox, Blackball, and the Babe) so contends in this admiring view. He covers Foster's successes and disappointments, his fight for equality, and his belated election to the Hall of Fame in 1981.
- Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
- "The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record . A vividly, excitingly written book:"--Chicago Tribune"Dramatic detail . an admirable journalistic feat." --The New York Times"As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome." --The Boston Globe.
- Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
- In revisiting the 1919 World Series scandal, baseball historian Carney argues persuasively that the infamous fix consisted of two conspiracies: the unsuccessful attempt of players, managers and owners to hide the fact that a handful of crooked White Sox had thrown the Series; and the largely successful effort of Charles Comiskey, owner of the team, and Judge Landis, baseball's first Commissioner, to ensure that the expulsion of eight accused
- The Best Pitcher in Baseball: The Life of Rube Foster, Negro League Giant
- Andrew (Rube) Foster was a star pitcher, winning manager, and founder of the Negro National League. But was he better than Cy Young, Walter Johnson, or any other hurler? Cottrell (1920: The Black Sox, Blackball, and the Babe) so contends in this admiring view. He covers Foster's successes and disappointments, his fight for equality, and his belated election to the Hall of Fame in 1981.
- Ray Schalk: A Baseball Biography
- "Plenty has been written about the 1919 Black Sox. It's time one of the honest White Sox, Hall of Fame catcher Ray Schalk, got some attention. Brian Cooper gives him his due in this well-researched biography." --Norman L. Macht, author of Connie Mack and the Early Years of Baseball, recipient of the SABR Larry Ritter Award.
- Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded
- In revisiting the 1919 World Series scandal, baseball historian Carney argues persuasively that the infamous fix consisted of two conspiracies: the unsuccessful attempt of players, managers and owners to hide the fact that a handful of crooked White Sox had thrown the Series; and the largely successful effort of Charles Comiskey, owner of the team, and Judge Landis, baseball's first Commissioner, to ensure that the expulsion of eight accused
- Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series
- "The most thorough investigation of the Black Sox scandal on record . A vividly, excitingly written book:"--Chicago Tribune"Dramatic detail . an admirable journalistic feat." --The New York Times"As thrilling as a cops and robbers tome." --The Boston Globe.
