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The betrayal: the 1919 World Series and the birth of modern baseball

2017; Routledge; Volume: 37; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1080/17460263.2017.1315029

1746-0271

Precious Sanders,

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In 1919, the heavily-favoured Chicago White Sox lost the World Series championship to the Cincinnati Reds, five games to three. It was a defeat that left a lot of baseball fans scratching their hea...