Double Plays And Double Crosses

Download or read book Double Plays and Double Crosses written by Don Zminda and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-10 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "[An] essential study of a previously unexplored chapter of the game’s history. An important addition to baseball collections...." Library Journal, Starred Review The gripping story of how one of the most infamous scandals in American history—the Black Sox scandal—continued for nearly a year following the fixed World Series of 1919 until the truth began to emerge. The Black Sox scandal has fascinated sports fans for over one hundred years. But while the focus has traditionally been on the fixed 1919 World Series, the reality is that it continued well into the following season—and members of the Chicago White Sox very likely continued to fix games. The result was a year of suspicion, intrigue, and continued betrayal. In Double Plays and Double Crosses: The Black Sox and Baseball in 1920, Don Zminda tells the story of an unforgettable team and an unforgettable year in baseball and American history. Zminda reveals in captivating detail how the Black Sox scandal unfolded in 1920, the level of involvement in game-fixing by notable players like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver, and the complicity of White Sox management in covering up details of the scandal. In addition, Zminda provides an in-depth investigation of games during the 1920 season that were likely fixed and the discovery during the year of other game-fixing scandals that rocked baseball. Throughout 1920, the White Sox continued to play—and usually win—despite mistrust among teammates. Double Plays and Double Crosses tells for the first time what happened during this season, when suspicion was rampant and the team was divided between “clean” players and those suspected of fixing the 1919 World Series.

Download or read book The Case of the Double Cross written by Crosby Bonsall and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 1982-04-07 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wizard's private eyes don't want any girls in their clubhouse. But a funny little man double-crosses the boys with a message in code. Then Marigold and her girlfriends get to show just how much the private eyes really need them.

Download or read book Double Play written by Kelley Armstrong and published by KLA Fricke Inc. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Life is good for Nadia and Jack. Their wilderness lodge business is booming, and they’re building a new home together, complete with a couple of dogs. It’s as close to normal as life gets…especially for a pair of contract killers.But for Jack, semi-retirement is a dangerous proposition. There are plenty of people who don’t want to lose his services. He’s halfway around the world when one of those disgruntled clients comes for Nadia. And he has no way to warn her. Note: this is a novella, not a full-length novel.

Download or read book Double Play/Perfect Victim written by Kelley Armstrong and published by KLA Fricke Inc. This book was released on 2017-11-01 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Double Cross written by Beth McMullen and published by Aladdin. This book was released on 2019-08-06 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Shannon Hale’s Princess Academy meets Stu Gibbs’s Spy School series in the third book in the Mrs. Smith’s Spy School for Girls series. Abby and her classmates have all been invited to Briar Academy to participate in The Challenge, a prep school competition where teams compete for prizes and the glory of being the best of the best. While there, they figure out their nemesis, The Ghost, is using Briar as headquarters to plan a devastating attack on his enemies (a.k.a.: pretty much everyone) using a brand-new invention Toby developed. And this time, The Center and Mrs. Smith will be of no help as Abby suspects there is someone working for The Ghost on the inside—and they can trust no one.

Download or read book Double Play written by Ralph Henry Barbour and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dan Vinton plays baseball and other sports at his prep school, Yardley.

Download or read book Double Cross written by Don Pendleton and published by Harlequin. This book was released on 2013-04-01 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: MIAMI HEAT Dozens are killed in a bloody attack outside a West Palm Beach courthouse when two Haitian gang leaders break out their brethren as a show of power over the city. Mack Bolan is sent in to neutralize the situation but finds that things have escalated. The two bosses have ambitions to rule the Miami underworld and have teamed with an arms-dealing motorcycle club to make it happen—promising pain to anyone who gets in their way. While the police department and local residents are too frightened to fight back, Bolan is not—especially after finding the battered remains of the gang’s innocent victims. The leaders of this crime ring may have risen from the streets, but the Executioner is prepared to send them down to hell.