| The Chicago Black Sox Trial: A Primary Source Account (Great Trials of the 20th Century) |  | Author: Wayne Anderson
Publisher: Rosen Publishing Group
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2625187
Media: Library Binding
Edition: 1
Reading Level: Young Adult
Pages: 64
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.9
Dimensions (in): 10.7 x 7.8 x 0.4
ISBN: 0823939693
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357640977311
EAN: 9780823939695
ASIN: 0823939693
Publication Date: August 2003
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Great Trial, Awful Book March 20, 2008
Gene Carney (Shadows of Cooperstown)
If the subtitle of the book, "A Primary Source Account," was changed to "Some Very Nice Photos," then perhaps the book would earn a star. But the documentation instead is extremely weak, and the book is filled with inaccuracies. You know you're in trouble as a reader even before you open the book -- its cover features a team photo of the White Sox (well, eleven of them) with seven players circled; we are supposed to think that they are the notorious Black Sox; but one is the easily-recognizable Eddie Collins, a Hall of Famer who was never even under suspicion.
"Unless otherwise attributed, all quotes in this book are excerpted from court transcripts," we read, even before the Table of Contents. But in fact, the transcripts of the Black Sox trial in 1921 vanished long before Eliot Asinof wrote "Eight Men Out" in 1963. The best we have today (unless the documents just found in Chicago contain court transcripts) are quotes from the day's newspapers. There are no papers in the Bibliography, however, so the author must be relying on the several books he consulted, and several more web sites. Not exactly primary sources!
The photographs are the highlight of the book (the cover excepted). Many are taken well after the 1919 Series, the year-long cover-up (barely mentioned), the 1920 Cook County grand jury, and the 1921 trial, but the images are still fascinating, and their quality, unlike the text, is excellent.
Gene Carney
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