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Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof

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Read as part of CBR14Bingo: Scandal. The 1919 World Series was scandalized by eight members of the Chicago White Sox agreeing to throw it as part of a gambling conspiracy.  Bill James is a legend among baseball fans. His greatest rep is as the Analytics Guy but my first taste of his work was his text on the Hall of Fame, in which he critiques the process by which people enter. James devoted a chapter to baseball’s most famous banned people: Pete Rose and Shoeless […]

One Night I Dreamed of War. Real, It Was.

Craig & Joan - Two Lives for Peace by Eliot Asinof

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On October 15, 1969, the day the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam took place, two 17-year-olds who had attended one of the events killed themselves by diverting exhaust fumes into their car. They left 24 suicide notes, and in the only one that was made public they explained that it was in protest of the war and a sacrifice to make others see the value of peace and love. Craig and Joan had not been the only suicides due to the war up […]



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