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Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Drawing on interviews with nearly four hundred people, who provided him with exclusive access to the first player to confess to using steroids, forever changing baseball, a writer seeks to make sense of the Major League Baseball Most Valuable Player's fascinating, troubled life as he examines his addictions, baseball successes and inner turmoil."--
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This book is the exciting story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history--the Black Sox scandal--continued for over a year following the "fixed" World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge. It is a story of gamblers and crooks; a story of teammates betraying one another; a story of investigations and cover-ups"--
Author
Publisher
Hudson Street Press
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Radomski, a former New York Mets employee, pleaded guilty to distributing anabolic steroids to dozens of major league players between 1995 and 2005. Since cooperating with baseball's steroids investigation, Radomski breaks his silence on life in the Major Leagues.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
"[T]races the Black Sox story from its roots in the gambling culture that pervaded the game in the years surrounding World War I, through the confusing events of the 1919 World Series itself, to the noisy aftermath and trial, and illuminates the moment as baseball's tipping point." --
Author
Publisher
Dutton
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"Describes how stolen ledgers revealed how the Florida clinic Biogenesis of America provided performance-enhancing drugs to professional baseball players, and discusses the resulting scandal and season-long suspension for Alex Rodriguez." --
Author
Publisher
Doubleday
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
The Houston Astros had won the 2017 World Series and made the playoffs the next two seasons. All the while, opponents felt that Houston's hitters knew what pitches were coming, and that the team had been stealing signals for several years. The ensuing scandal ensnared many other teams, either as victims, alleged cheaters or both. Martino takes readers behind the scenes and into the heart of the events that shocked the baseball world. He breaks down...
Author
Publisher
Potomac Books, Inc
Pub. Date
[2006]
Language
English
Description
"With their World Series win in 2005, the Chicago White Sox finally erased the so-called curse of the "Black Sox," those players who threw the 1919 World Series and created a blot on baseball's permanent record. But is that all there is to the story? Just as Watergate can't be summed up with "five burglars caught," "eight men out" doesn't begin to describe the Black Sox."
"While most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to "fix"...
Author
Publisher
Hachette Books
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Describes the corruption, including drug use, theft, and human trafficking, witnessed by the author during his nine years working in security for the Boston Red Sox and his six years working for Major League Baseball to clean up the sport.
"In the wake of 2005's sometimes contentious, sometimes comical congressional hearings on performance-enhancing drugs in baseball and the subsequent Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball established the Department...
