Annotated B-Sox Index, #268-490

AN ANNOTATED INDEX
TO THE NOTES PROBE INTO
THE GREAT BASEBALL COVER‑UP
 
            For most of its first 267 issues, between March 1993 and August 2002, Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown was an innocent newsletter that rarely dabbled in anything remotely close to “investigative reporting.”  Early on, Notes was heavy on poetry, light fiction, humor, reviews of books and movies, a little history, some essays. It was for Everyfan — except the Rotisserie nuts, the collectors, and the stat rats.
 

            Only during the Strike of 1994-95, did Notes take on a dark tone. But it survived those months of eclipse, and life went on. Then, inexplicably, a publication which rarely stayed on the same topic for a single issue, started focusing on a single event. An old case, “the Black Sox Scandal,” turned out to be a cold case  — a mystery still ripe for the solving, a slice of American history that had gone virtually unexamined for over eight decades, perhaps because it was baseball’s darkest hour (Seymour).
 

            Darkest indeed, but not just because the ties with gambling that had been strangling baseball were finally revealed, on the national stage of a World Series — but because baseball officials had conspired to cover up the Fix of October 1919, and when it finally came undone, a year later, they buried the event as rapidly as possible, and a taboo sealed the sport’s lips.
 

            Starting in September 2002, the next hundred or more issues of Notes were written “on the B-Sox trail” — to digging into the events of October 1919, the cover-up that followed, and the trials which put the principle players in the drama on the record. Nearly every issue, starting with #268, had at least one item related to the subject; sometimes, it took up the entire issue.
 

            Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded went to press in the summer of 2005, and was released the following March. The research never really stopped, and the book added new momentum. The appearance of the Chicago White Sox in the 2005 World Series in 2005 set in motion a bizarre chain of events that resulted in the discovery of brand new evidence, from a long-lost 1919 publication. The internet Yahoo group devoted to the “B-Sox” continued to attract new blood, yielding fresh questions and fresh contributions — more pieces of this old puzzle. Book reviews, new books and articles have raised interest in the B-Sox to a new level.
 

            Below is an Index that might serve as a guide for newcomers to the B-Sox Trail. How long it will continue to grow is anybody’s guess. The trip started with Hugh Fullerton, whose First Commandment of Sports (and Life) turned out to be the key: “Thou shalt not quit.”  Damn good advice.
 

 

 

9/24/02 #268: OUR MOVEABLE FEAST’S DARKEST DAYS    
 

His Pen Was Mightier Than the Cover‑Up.Hugh S. Fullerton Sr.
The Problem of Buck Weaver.Could he find someone who didn’t know about the fix?
History and Fiction ‑‑ Often Confused.Blue Ruin by Brendan Boyd.
Shoeless Joe.The “seven triples to left” argument examined ‑‑ and found wanting.
Reminiscing.Looking back, some players think the Reds would have won the Series anyway.
Aftermath.What the fix meant for its key players.
 
9/29/02 #269: THE BLACK SOX REVISITED    
 

Baseball Put on Trial.Hugh Fullerton calls for baseball reform.
The Response to Fullerton’s Charges.The Empire strikes back.
Don Quixote?What did Fullerton really accomplish?
Harvey Frommer’s Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball.A review
Harry’s Diary.Veeck’s unique chapter from Hustler’s Handbook .
An Amazing Chronology.From the end of the Series to 8 men out.
Eight Men Out ‑‑ The Movie.A brief review.
From the Notes Archive: Eliot Asinof in Cooperstown.In July 1999, Eliot Asinof was keynote speaker at a baseball symposium.
What About Shoeless Joe Jackson?The question will not go away.
Afterwords: Eavesdropping on the SABR‑L.Opinions from 1995.
 

10/6/02 #270: PRELUDE TO A WORLD’S SERIOUS  
 
Meanwhile, Back in 1919… Power covers up, and absolute power?
Hustler’s Handbook.A note on the credibility of this source.
Judge and Jury.David Pietrusza’s bio of Landis examined.
Dickie Kerr.How did the only “clean” Sox pitcher get banned?
Eliot Asinof.On Pete Rose.
The Problem with Eyewitness Testimony.A look at the seven Reds’ triples in the 1919 Series through eight different reporters.
The Problem with Judging Guilt/Innocence by the Stats.By the numbers, Jackson should be in the Hall, Collins and Roush out.
From the Notes E‑Mailbox.Contribution by David Shiner.
‘Mo Mail.In search of … Harry’s Diary.
1918 ‑‑ Was It Fixed, Too?Allen Wood’s book doesn’t say.
 

10/18/02 #271: CALIFORNIA DREAMIN’  
 
17 Years After the Fall.John Lardner in the Sat. Evening Post.
From the E‑Mail Box.A double play by Mike Nola, on Jerome Holtzman, MLB’s “historian,” and a note on Buck Weaver.
Yet Another Take.Bob Carroll in Baseball Between the Lies .
And Another.Writer Joe Williams on Fullerton and the fix.
 
10/25/02 #272: BACK ON THE TRAIL  
 
Who Threw the First Pitch?A look inside the head of Ed Cicotte.
Baseball’s Great Cover‑Up.Six “red herring” questions which we recognize as familiar; nine things they cover up. “Slacker Joe.”
A Tip for Researchers.Using the internet to track things down.
Priorities!My hunches about Comiskey and Judge Landis.
Meanwhile, Just Down the Street.Chicago race riots of 1919.
A Book We Need.The relationship between Comiskey and Ban Johnson was long, and absolutely vital to understand, 1919‑21.
Not Clueless About Shoeless.A deservedly long look at David Fleitz’ Shoeless and Donald Gropman’s Say It Ain’t So!
 
11/1/02 #273: TO BOLDLY GO …  
 
One More Thing… The eight men out committed no crime.
The Women of the Cover‑Up.A couple wives, and Mrs Kelly.
Two Simple Twists of Fate.Pitchers not available to Kid Gleason.
Curiosities.A potpourri of anecdotes.
Abbott and Costello Meet the Gamblers.An attempt to show the scope of the problem and the difficulty in finding its limits.
They Said It for the Record.A medley of quotations.
Say It Ain’t a Song ‑‑ Please.Lyrics to Say It Ain’t So, Joe.
 

11/4/02 #274: “THOU SHALT NOT QUIT”  
 

Did Jackson Asked to be Benched for the 1919 Series?So much hinges on the answer to this question. What is the evidence?
Speaking of Serendipity.Jim Crusinberry happened to be handy.
And a look at Ring Lardner, after the fix was uncovered.
Postscript on Dickie Kerr.His TSN obit: “guilty knowledge.”
A Joe Jackson Triptych.A look at five issues involving Joe, with Best/Worst Case Scenarios, and my own Most Likely explanation. One more fact covered up: there was no real investigation.
We All Make Mistakes.David Voigt and three Bucks.
 

11/15/02 #275 DISPROVING COHEN’S LAW  
 
In Search of … The Seven Circles.In The Celebrant, Eric Rolfe Greenberg describes Mathewson & Fullerton looking for signs.
Gimme That Old Time Religion.The Gospel According to ESPN.
A New Testament Interpretation.A review of William Herzog’s “From Scapegoat to Icon” in The Faith of Fifty Million .
Thirty‑Game Winner Interrupted ‑‑ Fact or Myth?Debunking the story that Cicotte was denied his chances to win 30.
Michael Gershman Writes.A look at Total Baseball & the fix.
 

11/22/02 #276 TRADING  
 
Costello ‑‑ Not the Comedian.Frank Costello keeps turning up.
From the E‑Mailbox.Contributions from David Nevard.
The Big Bankroll.Leo Katcher’s book on Rothstein reviewed.
The Eliot Asinof Factor.Correspondence with Asinof, Bleeding Between the Lines and an episode of Witness, rolled into one.
The Woodland Bards.Comiskey’s “good old boys” network.
The Federal League Factor.How this league affected baseball, and still does, via the antitrust exemption. Landis a key player.
 

 

12/2/02 #277 IT AIN’T NECESSARILY SO    
Intro.A look at gambling via The Lake County Times .
Speaking of Fixes.A look at The Fix Is In by Dan Ginsburg.
Even the Lawyers Had Nicknames.William J. Fallon was The Great Mouthpiece, and played three parts in the Cover‑Up story.
A Conversation with Hugh Fullerton.Hughie’s grandson, that is.
A Postscript on Eddie Cicotte.His confession began the end.
The Rest of the Story.Jack Dempsey, Carl Mays, Ruppert & Huston & Frazee, and more on the Bards.
Joe Jackson Innocent ‑‑ On This Web Site, Anyway.BB Immortals.
Where Do They Get This Stuff?Elden Auker on Jackson & Commy.
The Great Baseball Mysteryby Victor Luhrs. 3‑page review.
Another Author Checked Out.Email from Harvey Frommer.
What’s In a Nickname?Why is Comiskey called “The Old Roman”?
 

12/7/02 #278 MOVING THROUGH THE MAZE  
 
The Crusades of Louis R. Hegeman.A fair trial for Jackson?
Meanwhile, A Song is Born.Ring Lardner, before & after.
Thank Yous.Trying to give credit where it is truly due.
Assist, Dempsey.A snapshot at the All‑American boxer.
Gleaning.Gutman’s Baseball Babylon , Breslin’s Damon Runyon .
Bill James’ Take.This fan of Pete Rose has no sympathy for Joe.
Tales from a Bygone Era.Smith’s Baseball on a Summer Afternoon.
Back to the Future: Ralph Nader’s fan group not on the trail yet.
Ban Johnson: Hero or Goat?A longer look at a key figure, via Eugene C. Murdock’s Ban Johnson, Czar of Baseball .
 

12/14/02 #279 SNOW JOB    
 

Intro.Abe Attell in more Halls of Fame than Joe Jackson?
Snapshot from October 1920.How America’s editors took the news.
Corrections.Commy & the Brotherhood, and Playing‑managers.
A Note from William Herzog.Contribution by an author.
Stealing First in a Two‑Team Town.White Sox historian Richard C. Lindberg has done his homework. A caveat about Asinof.
“Charlie Hustle and Shoeless Joe”.Bill James revisited: ouch!
Spelunking a Website.Douglas O. Linder’s terrific site has some great links, too. “The History Network” article and much more.
Wheels in Motion.Rose in the news, Jackson on deck?
When Is It OK to Throw a Baseball Game?Pass this on to a friend.
 

12/21/02 #280 JOE VERSUS THE LAWYER    
 

The Last Carousel.Nelson Algren’s highly original description.
Joe Jackson Meets with Alred Austrian.Left‑fielder vs Lawyer.
Say It Ain’t So, David!Voigt’s “Myth of Baseball’s Single Sin.”
Follow the Money.Joe took $5,000 ‑‑ but where did it end up?
The Ted Williams Factor.A longer look at Ted’s 1988 plea.
Lefty Williams Speaks?Or is his GJ testimony Austrian again?
Me and Chicago.Memories of the Windy City, long after 1919.
 

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1/2/03 #281 FIRE UP THE STOVE    
 

Intro.Baseball evolves, but resists change; alternate views.
From the E‑Mailbox.Feedback from David Shiner on Joe vs Lawyer.
Back to Asinof.He wrote one more book: 1919 .
Baseball’s Greatest Drama.JJ Krueger, eyewitness to history?
30‑Game Winner, Interrupted ‑‑ Revisited.Eddie’s 1919 contract.
Once Upon a Time.How I looked at Shoeless Joe ‑‑ a decade ago.
The Spin That Missed.Imagine Buffalo’s editors leading the USA.
A David Voigt Postscript.Response from David V. to some Q’s.
If You’re Ever in Greenville, S.C.For tourists.
Quid Pro Quo.Another look at the Jackson‑Comiskey link.
 

1/9/03 #282 REVIEWING    
 

Jack Kavanagh’s Take.A great SABRite wrote about Joe for youth.
The Pressure of Being Number Three..356 counts as a HOF number.
“Say It Ain’t So” ‑‑ Another Look.An alternative interpretation?
From the E‑Mailbox.Merritt Clifton has a sociological comment; Jeff Kutler on the Q of fiction and/vs history; Hoopla !
A Day in the Life.Here is how Notes gets written lately.
Happily Ever After.The 1942 Sporting News interview with Joe.
The Spotlight on the Doorstep.Wilfrid Sheed’s 1990 GQ piece.
 

1/16/03 #283 REASONABLE DOUBT    
 

Notes from … Cooperstown.Cicotte, Rice, Lieb, Orfin, Falk, Isaminger/Maharg, Joe’s ABs, Commy Knew 3 Wks Before! ‑‑ & More.
Shoeless Joe ‑‑ Another Look at the Cases For & Against.A 3+ page summary of the evidence. Comment by Mike Nola.
From the NOTES Archive: Shoeless Joe Found Innocent.By a 1996 law class.
He’s Ba‑ack Dept. Notes responds to Ted Williams in 1998.
Shoeless, But Not Blameless.Another essay from 1998.
Also, references to two other items in #208 & #228 (Archive)
Another Mystery Solved ‑‑ Later.Did anyone escape detection?
More About John Carmichael.Goes to credibility of the reporter.
More Websites to Explore.Two more places to find a lot of info.
The Southwestern Connection.Lynn Bevill on “outlaw baseball.”
Where‑Do‑They‑Get‑This‑Stuff? Dept.George Uhle on Jackson.
More Inconclusive Evidence.A glance at suspicious games in 1920.
The Rest of the Story.Lefty Williams’ wife speaks.
A Harvey Frommer Postscript.A May 2002 essay is on a web site.
Speaking of the Grand Jury.The foreman testified for Joe in ’24.
 
1/26/03 #284 PEANUTS AND CRACKER JACK    
 

The Play’s The Thing.A review of Tom Perry’s one‑man show.
1920 Postscript.A review of the CD play‑by‑play of WS Game 5.
Upon Further Review.Another way of looking at Brigham’s remarks.
Bibliography.Three articles sent by Bill Dunstone.
Hoopla.Harry Stein’s creative novel, inside Buck Weaver’s head.
Speaking of Other Versions.Warren Brown’s ChiSox team history.
Anecdotes.Murdoch’s Baseball Between the Wars’ interviews.
Tale of the Tape.The rest of the Louis R. Hegeman crusade.
The Mathewson Factor.Not just anybody’s opinion of Joe’s play.
A Footnote on Nine‑Game World Series.Where would Game 9 be?
From the E‑Mailbox.David Shiner and Jeff Kutler take over.
 

2/2/03 #285 RENAMING THE “BLACK SOX SCANDAL”  
 
Familiar Terrain.A review of Daniel A. Nathan’s Saying It’s So .
I Stand Corrected … Over by the Fireside.Revisiting the Fireside Books.
Postcript on the Witness Episode.Joe Williams panned it, too.
Lesser‑Known Rulings of Judge Landis.Just kidding, Judge.
Mr. October.Some great players have wilted in October pressure. It‑Ain’t‑So Dept.What a closer look at the play‑by‑play shows.
Wait, There’s More.The Spalding Guide has some info, too.
Famous Last Words.Furman Bisher spoke with Jackson at the end.
 

2/8/03 #286 WHISTLEBLOWERS  
 
A Rube Goldberg Climax.How did the cover‑up get uncovered?
“This Town Ain’t Big Enough for Both of Us!”Ban lived in Chi.
A Minor Mystery Solved?A 1935 article explains Game 7’s attendance problem in Cincinnati.
From the E‑Mailbox.From Steve Olsen, Ann Arbor, MI.
WWWalking in Cyberspace.Some websites & e‑dresses of interest.
Corrections.It’s synecdoche, stupid.
Box Seat View.JG Taylor Spink and his role in events.
Doubleheader.Crusinberry & Gandil in the same issue of SI .
Did You Know?A medley of unrelated (?) bits of information.
Irritatingly Incomplete.Fragments of interviews with relatives of Shoeless Joe Jackson. But by whom?
Right‑Thing‑for‑Wrong Reason Dept.On renaming Comiskey Park.
 

2/15/03 #287 BLUE RIBBON JURY    
 

In Search of … Tom Swope.Looking for credibility.
From the E‑Mailbox.Dick Adams: Commy’s World Tours were perks.
Time Out: Which Series Looks Most Like It Was Fixed?’06? ’54?
In Defense of Garry Herrmann.GH expert Kevin Grace weighs in.
From the E‑Mailbox:Bill Deane. A nugget from Ray French.
John Durant’s Take on 1919.One more writer takes a swing, 1973.
Another Look at the Maharg Interview.Pressure on Cicotte.
Cut to the Chase.A recent bio of Hal the Stinger.
Two on Deck.Info on two books out this spring for youth.
Another Vote for Weaver.This from George Barton in BB Digest.
Speaking of Threats.Buck, Lefty’s wife ‑‑ Cicotte’s, too?
On Further Review…That elusive bonus in Cicotte’s contract.
A Different Kind of Trial.Can a special jury shed any light?
 

3/4/03 #289  PUTTING THE PUZZLE TOGETHER  
 

Asinof!  His essay for espn/classic; “the magic word is coverup.” The Questions Not Askedon the ESPN Classic documentary.
Dueling Reporters.Matty vs Fullerton, after the Fix.
 

3/16/03            #290  IS IT SPRING YET?  
 

Kenesaw Mountain  A poem.
Tidbits.  From the Cincinnati newspapers of 1919.
A Visit to Greenville, S.C.Hats off to Cecilia Tan.
 

4/19/03            #292   PLUS FIVE  
 

The Cover-Up Is Alive & Well  Cottrell’s Blackball, the Black Sox and the Babe , a mini-review.
 

5/18/03    #293  IS IT OCTOBER YET?  
 

You Can’t Look It Up — Yet.The problem with Jerome Holtzman.
The Frank Wills of 1920?  Elias Hoagland: does he deserve credit?
Research Needs.Did the tooth fairy slip Weaver money, too?
 

6/3/03 #295  ANOTHER TALE OF THE TAPE  
 

It Must Be True, I Saw It On the History Channel.A review of the 1997 documentary on the B-Sox Scandal.
Notes from the Trail.Summary of assorted research.
 

6/20/03            #297  ANATOMY OF A BOOK  
 

Follow the Golden Brick Road.A visit to the Seymour Collection.
 

6/30/03            #298   THE OTHER SIDE OF MILWAUKEE  
 

Too Much Menke Business.Frank G Menke covered the 1924 trial.
The Trial of Shoeless Joe Jackson That Nobody Noticed.Coverage from the 1924 Milwaukee papers & other sources.
 

7/10/03            #299   ALL-STAR READING  
 

More from Milwaukee.Affidavilts and transcripts and revelations.
The Big Bankroll’s Wife Tells All.Carolyn Rothstein wrote a book!
Menke Rides Writes Again.More coverage of the 1924 trial.
 

7/21/03            #300   THREE HUNDRED!  
 

A Little More on Cicotte.Edd Roush told Lawrence Ritter….
Here Come (More on) Da Judge.John J. Gregory, Milwaukee, 1924.
 

8/2/03 #301   ANOTHER LOWDERMILK ISSUE  
 

Squibs.When did Gleason first confront his team about the Fix?
Another Visit to October 1919.The Herald & Examiner coverage.
 

8/11/03            #302   THIS JUST IN  
 

The Awful Howl.More on the Gleason confrontation.
Lefty Williams.Five pages about (and some by) the southpaw.
 

8/20/03            #303   WINDING DOWN  
 

Notes from Milwaukee.More from that treasure trove of transcripts.
 

9/7/03 #305   NOTES FROM A ROAD TRIP  
 

Six Hours.A day spent with Eliot Asinof.
Kids With Pens and Notebooks.Ages of the reporters in 1919.
 

9/12/03            #306   REPERCUSSIONS  
 

Say It Ain’t So, John!  John Sayles’ film 8MO has problems.
 

9/19/03            #307   PARALLEL UNIVERSES  
 

Rothstein.A review of Pietrusza’s biography of the Big Bankrool.
 

9/26/03            #308   STRETCH RUN … WEEKEND  
 

Statute of Limitations.Comiskey honored by a statue.
Collyer’s Eye.The search begins.
 

10/3/03            #309   BREAK IN THE ACTION  
 

Another Wray of Light.Fullerton sent baseball to Ed Wray.
 

10/10/03          #310   GOING IT ALONE  
 

A Lesser-Known Ruling of Judge Landis.From the grave?
Ban Johnson’s Own Story.The Wray & Stockton series.
 

10/17/03    #311   THE COLORS OF OCTOBER  
 

Wanted.Research needs of the day. ( Harry’s Diary still at large)
Life-Imitates-Art Dept.Fullerton’s 1915 fiction — scary!
 

10/25/03          #312   LOOKING BACK  
 

The Rest of the Story.The Tribune tribute to Ban Johnson.
An Unpronounceable P.S.  Ring Lardner’s poem on Cicotte.
 

11/1/03    #313   ANOTHER LOOK BACK  
 

Comiskey vs Obenshain.Commy & Ban, grumpy old men?
 

11/11/03   #314   WHOLE LOT OF SHAKIN’ GOING ON  
 

Cicotte’s Muff Thru Other Eyes.The infamous E-1 re-examined.
Tales of the Tapes.Murdock interviewed Faber, Kopf, others.
Part One: The Day That Shook Baseball.Basis of a screenplay?
One More Time.Notes from Baseball Magazine , 1919.
 

11/15/03   #315   THE DAY THAT SHOOK BASEBALL  
 

Parts II and IIIof a fictional account of September 28, 1920.
 

11/22/03    #316   DAYS THAT SHOOK WORLDS  
 

Parts IV-VI.Jackson confers with Lefty Williams. Commy lunches with Hugh Fullerton. Gandil reads the Maharg interview.
 

12/6/03    #317   CHRISTMAS BLACK STOCKINGS?
 

Part VII.Joe Jackson in the lawyer’s den.
Landis’ Edict May Not Have Ended BB’s Ties with Gambling.Robert Smith recalls the Collyer’s Eye story that ended up in court.
The Legend of the Cicotte Bonus.Mr Asinof, we have a problem.
 

12/13/03    #318   A CHRISTMAS STORY?  
 

Intro & Conclusion to Day That Shook BB . Parts VIII thru XI.
Field of Crackerjack.Some old Notes fiction featuring Shoeless.
 

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1/9/04   #319   DUCKS ON THE POND  
 

Pete Rose.An old poem.
Research Needs.Nine loose ends & a progress report.
 

1/17/04    #320   EYEWITNESS TESTIMONY  
 

Giving Credit Where It is Due.Bert Collyer and Collyer’s Eye .
That Other Scandal.1917 comes up for review a decade later.
 

2/1/04   #321   SINCE LAST TIME  
 

Collyer’s Eye.Contact with the family.
Steve Klein’s Work.Fullerton’s vetoed Tribune series from 1922.
You Can Say That Again.Finding the 1935 Fullerton memoir.
Muggsy a Mugger?The Great Mouthpiece rescued the great manager.
Never on Friday.A proposed outline for the book that became Burying the Black Sox . (Look Ma, no footnotes — yet.)
 

2/15/04     #322   OLD BLACK SOX NEVER DIE  
 

The Last Days — and Interviews — of Chick Gandil.Dwight Chapin spoke with Gandil in 1969; here’s what he recalled.
1919 World Series Fixed? Nothing New!The 1903 WS bribery.
What Did He Call them?  “Whitewashing bastards” — in TSN ?
A Little More Fullerton.He picked Jackson as his all-timer LF.
Nuggets.Columnist Arthur Daley puzzled by a check of history.
Shirley It Ain’t So.Mr Povich speaks with Mr Joe Jackson, 1941.
 

2/27/04   #323   FOLLOW THE MONEY  
 

New Evidence on the Cicotte Bonus.Not in his contract?
What’s a Little Wager Among Friends?Betting at the top of MLB.
Mini-scandals.Hanky-panky with previous Series — ticket sales.
Don’t Tell It to the Judge.BB Johnson & the Cobb-Speaker Affair.
 

3/12/04    #324   ON THE FRINGE OF THE SCANDAL  
 

1920 Series Was Not Bribe-Free.Not to worry — $16, Confederate.
Eddie Collins, American.One version of how the Sox got Eddie.
A Bit More on Mr Collins.Just what did Jackson say to Seymour?
Two Degrees of Separation.Jake Lingle, the link to Al Capone.
Nat Evans to Place, in the Third.Rothstein henceman a horseman.
Another Joe Jackson?This one liked to clown around.
Dooin the Right Thing.Charley Dooin makes news in 1924, for ’08.
 

3/21/04   #325   SPRING  
 

Postscript on the Seymours.Harold & Dorothy, versus David Voigt.
 

4/4/04    #326   ON THE TRAIL AGAIN  
 

Baseball’s Cold Case.So much learned, so much yet to find out.
Tough Trivia.An interview with the first actor to play Jackson.
Nooks and Crannies.Searching for Natl Police Gazette , M.Tennes.
College Boys.B.Johnson & H.Fullerton & their alma maters.
“The Same Men Who Bribed the Championship White Sox Team.”A 1940 scandal at a California race track with echoes of 1919.
 

4/22/04    #327   TO THE ACCOMPLICES   
 

Shoeless Joe.An old poem, from Romancing the Horsehide .
Credit an Assist To …Some of many acknowledgements.
 

4/30/04    #328   BAN I AM  
 

Ban the Man.Ten pages devoted to a key player in the story.
 

5/8/04   #329   UNLIKELY TRILOGY  
 

The National Police Gazette.Its coverage of The Big Fix.
Fred’s Finest Hour.Fred McMullin honored for battling gamblers.
 

5/21/04    #330   NON-EVENTS  
 

The Cicotte Muffs — One More Time.Eddie playing Game 4 to win?
 

6/6/04   #331   GONE FISHING  
 

Try Over There. Fishing in the ProQuest pond for B-Sox catches.
OK, A Few More.The Chicago Tribune is worth the visit.
Peanuts and Crackerjack.Notes from the Seymour Collection.
 

7/19/04    #334   BACK IN THE SHADOWS AGAIN  
 

Notes from the Queen City.SABR convention, panel on 1919 WS.
 

7/31/04   #335   THE DEAD ZONE  
 

Close, But No Revelation.The Lee Magee case, before the scandal.
Harry’s Diary Revisited.Still on that trail.
 

8/13/04   #336   A NOTE TO READERS  
 

The Making of a SABR Panel.How that Cincinnati event evolved.
Occam’s Razor.The simplest explanation for Cicotte’s Gm 1 loss.
 

8/20/04    #337   READY FOR ANOTHER STRETCH  
 

Cut to the Chase — Hal, That Is.Reviewing Dewey/Acocella’s bk.
 

9/6/04   #338   END OF SUMMER  
 

Still in Search of the Seven Circles (And More).Fullerton and Matty sat together at the 1919 WS and shared their suspicions.
 

9/13/04   #339   STRETCH RUN READING  
 

Help.  Acknoledgements for librarians and others.
Some New Questions.Benton, the 1928 Eye , MacBeth, much more.
 

10/2/04   #340   FOURSCORE AND FIVE YEARS AGO  
 

Defending Knuckles.The case for Cicotte’s innocence.
 

10/21/04   #341   OCTOBER BASEBALL  
 

Behind the B-Sox Nicknames.Some comic relief.
Post-Season Fun.From 1912, when the Sox were really trying.
 

12/14/04    #344   THE SERIES OF DECEMBER 1919  
 

The NYEW DECEMBER 1919 Series.Hugh Fulleron blows a whistle.
 

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1/1/05   #345  WINTER COOKIE  
 

Nugget from Atlanta.Fullerton “Vividly Describes the Full Details” — Commy said 7 won’t return; the Kid packed iron.
Defending Buck.If I was Buck’s lawyer, how I’d argue.
Still Shoeless, After All These Years.Review of Kelly Sagert’s biography of Jackson.
 

1/9/05   #346  TRIPLEHEADER  
 

Those Crazy Oil Men.A long look at “Sleepy Bill” Burns.
 

3/3/05   #348  CAN’T BE TOO CAREFUL    
 

Signing those waivers of immunity — did that really matter? 
A Week in the Life.Posts to the B-Sox Yahoo Group: Peaches & Maharg; Harry F.; Web Gems (Weaver); Weaver & Woodruff; More on Buck’s Dilemma; Conspiracy Theory (Weaver); Conspiracy: Not a Four-Letter Word.
 

3/29/05   #349  NOTES FROM A ROAD TRIP  
 

March Madness, Baseball Style.NINE Conference in Tucson, AZ.
On the Trail.Notes from Santa Fe microfilm.
 

4/14/05   #350  THREE HUNDRED FIFTY  
 

Speaking of the Old West.An excerpt from Susan Dellinger’s Red Legs and Black Sox (due out in early 2006 from Emmis Books).
Gleaned from the Internet: Yahoo Group Postings.Inside Eddie (Cicotte); Jacksonian Thoughts and More; Confession is Good for the — Media; Tangled Webs — Not Just for Mitts; Innocent Until Proven Guilty — How Novel an Idea is That?
 

5/9/05   #351  PLAY IT AGAIN, SAM  
 

Replay of the 1919 Series, using the APBA dice simulation game.
 

5/19/05   #352  TIDBITS  
 

Awfulizing.Maximize the crime, the guilty parties. Why not?
Includes a nugget from Eddie Cicotte in the Cleveland News , and some columns from Ed Bang.
ESPN — The “Top Five” Show.A brief inside story.
 

6/7/05   #353  BURYING THE BLACK SOX  
 

What’s in a book title?
Another Series to the Sox.Lefty wins three this time around.
 

6/21/05   #354  REQUIEMS  
 

A tribute to James Floto. The roots of Burying the B-Sox .
 

7/3/05   #355  NOTES ON A HOLIDAY WEEKEND  
 

Notes from the B-Sox Trail.Nuggets from the Cooperstown library.
The Lure of the Mystery.Victor Luhrs, in the shadows of Asinof.
Reprint of a review of The Great Baseball Mystery from #277.
 

7/20/05   #356  THE SUMMER GAME  
 

Following the Money … No, the Other Money.How much would Baseball have lost if they halted or cancelled the 1919 WS?
The Tin Box.What was covered-up?
Careful-What-You-Wish-For Dept.Joe Williams’ B-Sox writings.
 

8/9/05   #357  AFTER MORNINGS AFTER  
 

A report on the SABR National Convention in Toronto.
Wait’ll Next Year.Some B-Sox song parodies, just for fun.
 

8/27/05   #358  THE SAME OLD STORY  
 

Bert Collyer: Baseball’s Conscience.My presentation from the SABR convention.
In the Evening Mail .Fullerton columns from summer 1921, thanks to Steve Steinberg.
 

9/6/05   #359  TWO FOR THE BOOK  
 

Sportographs.“The Fourth Menke” article. And a fifth.
The Eighth Obenshain: Worth the Wait.Earl Obenshain’s take from 1929. Thanx to Mike Nola for finding both Menke & Obie!
 

10/16/05   #361  TIMING IS EVERYTHING  
 

On the B-Sox Trail.A look back at three years of research.
 

10/23/05   #362  THE TRAIL GETS CROWDED  
 

The White Sox in the 2005 Series puts 1919 in the spotlight.
Meanwhile, A New Discovery.“Seeds of a Scandal” in 1917?  Not.
Open Letters to Dave Anderson (NY Times) & Mike Downey (Chicago Tribune).So much mis-information to correct, so little time.
 

10/28/05   #363  CURSE, SCHMURSE  
 

The Rest of the Story.On that 1917 “Seeds of a Scandal.”
Will the Trail Turn Cold?  Discovery of Collyer’s Eye , 1919!
These Things Happen.Stefan Fatsis & the Wall St Journal .
Epilogue.A note on the 2005 Series to tack onto my book.
 

11/13/05   #364  IN & OUT OF TIME  
 

Meanwhile, Back on the Trail.Blackmail, wine & women lures!
More Guilty Knowledge.Dickie Kerr & the plight of the Clean Sox.
‘Round the Internet Horn.SABR-L Posts: Left-Fielders & Grand Jury Leaks (Jackson & Bonds); The Strange Case of Joe Jackson; Joe Jackson and the Golden Rule; Jackson: Half-Drunk or Half-Sober? Yahoo B-Sox Question: Rank These Scandals in Order.
 

12/9/05   #365  LOST AND FOUND  
 

Collyer’s Eye at the UIUC Library: now you don’t see it, now you do. Exposes and giving credit where it’s due.
Women-of-the-Fix Dept.Mrs Kelley: what did she really know?
Collyer’s Eye Revisited.Finding an obscure publication.
 

12/23/05   #366  HOLIDAY READING  
 

The Curse.The price of Shoeless Joe’s illiteracy?
Quantum Leap.A review of The 1917 White Sox .
 

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1/3/06    #367   INDICES  
 

Indexing the Book.A tip for authors.
Speaking of Hugh Fulleron.Eight articles from October 1919.
 

1/15/06    #368   ON DEATH AND DYING  
 

Play It Again, Sam.Another look at Bleeding Between the Lines .
 

2/5/06    #369   ANTICIPATION  
 

Early Returns.Reviews by Tygiel, Library Journal , Olbermann.
 

2/26/06    #370   “THERE’S A LONG DRIVE …”  
 

Meanwhile, More Reviews and Blurbs.Including Bill Deane’s.
 

3/23/06   #371   NOTES ON THE RUN  
 

Publishers Weekly.“Frustrated by empasis on accuracy of detail”?
 

4/10/06    #372   BONDS ON BONDS  
 

More Notes on the Run.E-mails on over-documentation; B-Sox: The Musical; Historic BB Archive; The Gambling Side; Reds; Bill James; Reinstatement; Grabiner; A Correction; Cover-Up by Distraction; Media & Fans; More on the Media Thing; Barry, Pete & Shoeless.
 

5/10/06   #373   FELIX CULPA  
 

In the B-Sox Yahoo Group.A progress report.
Reviews.Thirteen of ’em.
Finale: What If — ?Replaying the end games of 1920.
 

6/3/06   #374   HOOKS WILTSE DAY  
 

More Reviews.Five more, including the Chicago Daily Herald .
Joe Jackson on the Stand.1920 grand jury testimony dissected.
How Cheap … Was Commy?  Let’s cheat and look at the payrolls.
 

6/17/06    #375   ARE FANS NUMEROLOGISTS?  
 

Barry Bond, Mark McGwire. Game of Shadows , shadows of 1919.
 

6/25/06   #376   ALL’S FAIR?  
 

Dirty Laundry.Did the B-Sox scandal hurt attendance in MLB?
Black Sox vs “The Strike” — Revisited.Mostly hurt in Chicago.
Soul Man.An essay on the Commish, master of spin control.
More Reviews.Stefan Fatsis, Bill Madden weigh in.
 

7/9/06   #377   ROAD SHOW  
 

SABR in Seattle.“Eight Myths Out” and other presentations.
The Reviews Keep Coming.George Michael, Mike Nola.
A Nugget from Dunkirk.In 1932, Jackson recalls asking out.
More on the Dark Side.1933 New Yorker profile of a gambler; Abe Attell talks, to Cavalier , in 1961.
No More Watergates.James T. Farrell: can another scandal happen?
 

8/4/06   #378   HOT AUGUST DAYS  
 

Reviews Keep Coming.Four more, including Paul Adomites’.
Ball Four — Take Your Base — Please!Bouton on scandals.
You Know Me, Don’t You?  Something for balance.
 

8/20/06    #379   ON THE ROAD AGAIN  
 

Nine Days In August.Ray Schalk, Designated Puncher; Picking on Mr Schalk; When is Silence Not Golden?; Third-String Catcher Speaks Up (1962 — Joe Jenkins); More Chicago-Detroit Hanky-Panky?; Commy as Scrooge?; Gandil’s Little Trick (1920, Utah); Is a Cruise a Road Trip?; Reports from the Road.
More Reviews.Four more, including Bud Poliquin, Joe Wayman.
 

9/4/06   #380   STRETCH RUNS  
 

Milwaukee, the Second Time Around.Revisiting the 1924 trial.
Say It Ain’t So, Abner.They were corking bats in the 1860s.
A Couple More Reviews.Two, to be exact.
More on Milwaukee.A few highlights.
 

9/21/06   #381   MORE FROM MILWAUKEE  
 

Opening Day Image.A lawyer’s fiction or a Comiskey threat?
The Case for Eddie Cicotte.More evidence that he played to win.
Anatomy of a Fix.A project — sort out the stories.
 

10/18/06   #382   OCTOBER’S GAMES  
 

On the Road Again.The U of Rio Grande, Ohio, talks B-Sox.
Hawaii, Again.For me, that’s where the B-Sox trail began.
 

12/4/06    #384   EATING OFF HOME PLATE  
 

Was Comiskey a Scrooge?  Ebenezer, he may not have been.
Two More Reviews.One from a Hall of Famer.
Four Twenty Game Winners.The Sox had them in 1920, but no flag.
Two Books to Recommend. The Tour to End All Tours — familiar names in happier days; and The Old Ball Game , Matty & McGraw.
 

12/17/06   #385   WHITE STOCKING STUFFERS  
 

A Note from Jim Elfers.Author of The Tour on Commy, more.
Kneeling-On-Deck Dept: Eyeing Collyer’s Eye .1919 is waiting!
Farewell to ProQuest.Home research may never be as good again.
Black Sox Die, But They Do Not Fade Away.More from Gandil. via Dwight Chapin, in 1969.
Interviews.An aside on asides.
Clearing Buck Weaver, or Muddying His Case?An essay from December 2005 on the curious world of David ClearBuck Fletcher.
 

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1/1/07   #386   IN WITH THE OLD  
 

December 26: An Open Letter to Ann Killion.Mark McGwire, the Hall, character, and the difficulty of being far.
December 21: Poor Lefty.Sympathy for a southpaw.
December 22: 80-Proof Reporters.An exchange of good stuff.
December 26: Stocking Stuffers.Prohibition & Commy’s friends.
December 26: PS on Writers & Teams.Reporters as entertainers?
December 26: “…Without the Express Written Consent…”More on the series by Fullerton, vetoed by the White Sox.
December 27: [Jackson] Guilty as Charged.But — of what?
December 28: Jackson: Take the Money and Play?The evidence?
December 29: Speaking of Buck.Are there degrees of guilt?
December 29: PS on the Issues / Arthur Daly.Sorting out the degrees of guilt — or innocence — in 1919.
December 30: Eddie, Commy, Shoeless & Morality Play.Eddie Collins, that is. Ordinary people in bizarre circumstances.
December 31: Connections.  Linking 1919 to the Steroid Era.
January 1: More Connections!Gamblers and injury reports.
 

1/19/07   #387   THE CASE FOR SHOELESS JOE  
 

The Case for Shoeless Joe Jackson.Dear Mr Commissioner….
A full issue devoted to the bggest question for most fans.
 

2/7/07   #388   MORE PIECES OF THE B-SOX PUZZLE  
 

Charles Comiskey, deposed March 24, 1923.More Milwaukee notes:
Harry Grabiner; Lefty Williams; Judge McDonald; Red Faber; Hugh Fullerton; Felsch’s Lawsuit; Ray Cannon; Risberg’s Suit; the 1919 Bonus; Billy Maharg. What I found, the second time around.
Random Interview.8th Graders can ask good questions.
Two More Reviews.Both from Amazon.com.
 

2/17/07   #389   TRIAL OF THE CENTURY  
 

Snapshots from the Summer of 1921.A look at how the newspapers of America covered the testimony of Burns & Maharg, & more.
 

2/27/07   #390   WINTER WONDERLAND  
 

Errata.Correcting those little details in books.
The Origin of the Species Fix. Not the butler or Sport Sullivan.
Hot Stove Reading.A link to an American Heritage 1960 article.
Eight Men Out on the Internet.We can digitally search it!
Say It Ain’t So Again, Sam.Jackson & the Urchin: symbolism?
B-Sox Q & A.Answers to questions I get these days.
Mel Durslag, Chick Gandil’s Voice in 1956.An interview with Mel.
 

3/21/07    #391   COUNTING DOWN THE DAYS  
 

On the Trail — in the 1950s, with Mr Pegler.A look at a series of articles by Pegler in which he interviewed some of the B-Sox.
 

4/17/07            #392   WINTRY MIX  
 

September Song, 1919.Following the White Sox that month.
The Roots of Eight Men Out .Farrell’s Dreaming Baseball reviewed.
 

4/23/07            #393   IS IT SPRING YET?  
 

The Next One.Summary of research into B-Sox since Burying .
The Reviews Keep Coming.Norman Macht, Bob Koch, Pete Cava.
“Fiddle Some”?What is certain about the Fix of 1919? Not much!
 

5/2/07 #394   THE NATURAL  
 

Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown. The Smoky Joe Wood tapes.
The Natural , After All These Years.A review of Malamud’s novel.
Natural Follow-Ups.Nathan’s book, and of course, the movie.
Notes from the Seymour.SABR’s conference always stimulating.
An Out-of-LF Thought on a LF.Innocent because of the numbers trying to prove him guilty?
More Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown. On Joe Gedeon.
Summer Re-Runs.Comments on article all around the horn.
 

5/9/07 #395   ROUGH AND TUMBLE TIMES  
 

The Gray Eagle Flies Again.On Tim Gay’s biography of Speaker.
Another Review of Burying . Frank Ardolino in NINE .
 

5/16/07            #396   GOOD QUESTIONS  
 

A Tale of Two Jeromes.On MLB’s official historian, Holtzman.
 

5/22/07            #397   TO TELL THE TRUTH  
 

Shadow of a Book.Rutkoff’s Shadow Ball ; no light on the B-Sox.
 

6/6/07 #399   CLOSING IN ON 400  
 

In the News.Satire: The Mitchell Commission takes on gambling.
 

6/19/07            #400   FOUR HUNDRED  
 

An Open Letter to Bud Selig.An exchange with the Commish.
 

6/27/07            #401   BEER WITH A CHASER  
 

The Black Prince Gambit.Give Rose & Jackson Hal Chase’s status?
 

7/16/07            #403   MIDSUMMER CLEANING  
 

Homeland Security.Ty Cobb’s solution to the gambling menace.
Six from Steve Steinberg. Articles and commentary.
I Remember ProQuest.Three more articles plus.
Two from Mike Nola.The Fourth Menke; Ray Cannon vs Landis.
 

7/21/07            #404   REQUIEM FOR A LEAGUE  
 

Betsy’s Rival.A review of Just Joe by Thomas Perry.
 

8/7/07 #406   SPLINTERS  
 

A Couple More Reviews.From Cait Murphy, Russ Tarby.
Eye-Balling Collyer’s Eye .May 1918 thru October 18, 1919.
 

8/15/07            #407   THE EYE , WIDE OPEN  
 

Collyer’s Eye:October 18, 1919 thru the end of December 1919.
 

8/21/07            #408   EYE OF THE STORM  
 

Two More Reviews:Steve Applehans in CSR ; RJ Lesch, Inside Game .
Meanwhile, Back at the Eye:1920 coverage, up to October 2.
 

8/21/07            #409   SEEING EYE WATCHDOG  
 

Collyer’s Eye:Vindicated 10/2/20, thru August 1921.
 

8/24/07            #410   THE EYE , AFTER THE FALL  
 

Collyer’s Eye;After the trial, thru September 8, 1923.
 

8/26/07            #411   LAST LOOKS AT THE EYE   
 

Collyer’s Eye:September 1923 thru February 1925.
 

8/30/07            #412   RETURN TO NORMALCY  
 

More from Milwaukee.Part one of the SABR BRJ article.
On the Trail Again.In search of Turf Light .
Postscript on Collyer’s Eye.What was there for Baseball to know?
Enhancing Performance — And the Opposite. Tampering, 1919-style.
 

9/4/07 #413   RACE TO .500        
 

Coming Soon, to a DVD Rental Store Near You.Homework for an interview: Sorting out the chronology at the end of 8 Men Out .
More From Milwaukee.Part two of the SABR BRJ article.
Honest Eddie Murphy.A lesser-known ChiSox player from 1919.
Poeming the Judge.Landis in verse.
 

9/11/07            #414   LOOKING BACK, CATCHING UP  
 

For the Record.More miscellaneous articles & commentary.
 

9/18/07            #415   “ALL I KNOW IS WHAT I READ …  
 

But First, A Couple More Reviews.Ed Nixon, Bill Swanson in NINE .
Thru the Newspapers, One More Time.More articles & commentary.
 

9/20/07            #416   PEBBLE HUNTER  
 

Collyer’s Eye. 1925-28.
One Last Thing.The Eighth Obenshain.
 

9/25/07            #417   THE BIG TRAIN ISSUE  
 

The Honest Eddie Revisited.More on the pride of Hancock, NY.
This Rube Was No Country Bumpkin.The story on Rube Benton.
Between the Lines of Between the Lines .Another look at the book.
Shaking Hands.Meeting a relative of Eddie Cicotte.
 

10/1/07    #418   PLAYOFF!  
 

Not Trying in 1920 Stretch Run?Or streaking? You can look it up.
More Clues.Assorted nuggets from John Thorn’s B-Sox collection.
The Catbird Seat. Dave Frishberg’s B-Sox musical.
Obenshain on Landis.Five articles in Collyer’s Eye .
 

10/8/07     #419   SWEEPS WEEK  
 

In the Wake of the Scandal.Oscar Reichow first reactions.
Bits and Pieces.More from The Sporting News , in the wake.
New Yorker.Tom Meany wrote that Jackson asked to be benched.
Honoring Honesty.A hometown tribute to Eddie Murphy.
Notes on the Road.Top 10 Epitaphs for Abe Attell’s tombstone.
Preview of Coming Distractions.Fiction: the WIVES did it.
 

10/15/07    #420   SUCH INTERESTING PEOPLE  
 

On the Road Again.To Cooperstown, with Eddie Cicotte’s kin.
A Visit with Bill Klem.The Old Arbitrator on the Big Fix.
Most Happy Fella.Reutlinger’s infamous interview with Felsch.
Nooks & Crannies Dept.Charlie Jamieson remembers 1920, sort of.
Honest.  A poem on Eddie Murphy.
 

10/22/07    #421   OCTOBER GAMES  
 

Play It Again, Kid.Another APBA rematch of the 1919 champs.
 

11/6/07    #423   SO MANY TRAILS TO FOLLOW  
 

Meanwhile, Back on the B-Sox Trail.Touring 1920 via microfilm.
The National Pastime.It was gambling. How about those pools?
 

11/15/07    #424   OFF-SPEED PITCHES  
 

There’s Always More.An Oct 4, 1920, interview with Kid Gleason.
Suggestions for a B-Sox Library.Lots of recommendations.
Grantland Rice’s Post-Scandal Column.“Possibly, nothing at all will be done” — what, baseball whitewash?
 

11/19/07    #425   MORE PUZZLE PIECES FOUND!  
 

The Mastro Auction Documents.A sneak preview.
Another Review.Richard Miller in Sports Collectors Digest .
A Little More Rice.Grantland on the Fix: “Kicked in stomach.”
No Heroes This Time, Either.Two dark hours, compared again.
Dear Mr Anderson — Again.Dave Anderson column, corrected.
 

11/27/07   #426   CURIOUSER AND CURIOUSER  
 

More on the Mastro Auction.Discoveries and their frequency.
Back to Those CAC Documents.More sneak previews.
 

12/4/07    #427   IN THE WAITING ROOM  
 

A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Auction.B-Sox satire.
The Judge Before the Jury.Landis’ edict under scrutiny.
 

12/13/07    #428   ANOTHER DAY THAT SHOOK BASEBALL  
 

First Things First.The results of the Mastro B-Sox auction.
 

12/20/07   #429   FROM THE HORSE’S MOUTH  
 

The Man o’War Factor.In the re-discovery of Collier’s Eye .
History: How Will the Mitchell Report Go Down?Like the B-Sox?
 

1/8/08 #431   FEELS LIKE SPRING TRAINING
 

Is There DNA In Them Thar Papers?Speculation on CHM’s documents.
 

1/17/08            #432   THE BRIGHT SIDE
 

Damn Black Sox.Another APBA simulation of the 1919 Series.
 

2/12/08            #434   “DON’T LET BASEBALL DIE”
 

Batting .500 — At the Library. Jazz Age Jews recommended.
 

2/19/08            #435   CONSPIRACY THEORIES
 

The CHM Documents.Why no rush to reveal their contents?
Baseball’s Invisible Man.Rick Huhn’s Eddie Collins biog.
 

2/28/08            #436   SCATTERED PICTURES
 

Too Many Pieces.The B-Sox story as a giant puzzle.
Greenville’s Goin’ Shoeless!  The SJJ Museum will open in June.
 

3/14/08            #438   FAREWELL TO WINTER
 

For Your B-Sox Library.White’s Creating the National Pastime .
1919.In the context of a personal history of baseball.
 

3/20/08            #439   REMEMBER THE PAST — OR ELSE
 

Horse Racing and Baseball.The tracks were open in 1919, & more.
 

3/29/08            #440   SWEET SIXTEEN
 

Good Photos, No Text.Book on B-Sox Trial reviewed.
Tidbit on the Trail. Wheeler’s I Have News for You on Bubbles .
 

4/4/08 #441   AND THEY’RE OFF
 

Meanwhile, Back on the B-Sox Trail.Three nuggests from Mike Nola: Still more on Cicotte Bonus; Spink, Furman Bisher.
 

4/18/08            #443   THEN AND NOW    
 

1919 Books.By Asinof, Hagedorn. More than baseball going on.
More on a False Alarm.LA track scandal; Gambler & the Bug Boy .
 

5/28/08            #448   ON THE ROAD AGAIN
 

Down As History.Books on 1919 & the Twenties.
 

6/5/08 #449   THEN AND NOW
 

“I Ain’t Guilty of Nothing.”Shoeless Joe interviewed in 1922.
 

6/25/08            #450   ‘TWEENER
 

Eight Men Out Remembered.Asinof mourned, 8MO celebrated in Indy.
Greenville Goes Shoeless.Eyewitness account of a museum opening.
Six Hours.Reprint of my account of a day with Asinof.
 

7/1/08 #451   THIRTY-EIGHT
 

But First, For B-Sox Fans.SABR Conventions past & future.
 

7/15/08            #452   MIDSUMMER MUSINGS
 

Postscript on John Sayles’ Commentary.On the new DVD of 8MO .
 

7/29/03            #453   TELL ME A STORY
 

Covering-Up: Standard Operating Procedure.Jack Taylor’s tale.
 

8/8/08 #454   AUGUST
 

One That Slipped Past.Steve Reiss reviews Burying for JSH .
 

8/15/08            #455   WESTERN SWING
 

Back in the Shadows.Findings from a trip to Cooperstown.
 

8/26/08            #456   OUT EAST
 

The Saratoga Connection.Baseball fix born at a racetrack?
Me and Eliot.Correspondence with the late author of 8MO .
 

9/4/08 #457   DOWN THE STRETCH
 

Careful-What-You-Wish-For Dept.Mike Lynch’s new book, Harry Frazee, Ban Johnson, & the Feud that Nearly Destroyed the AL .
Another Nugget.Charges of bribery — and more — in 1920.
 

9/16/08            #458   PLAY IT AGAIN, JOCKO
 

Insiders.The reporters who were “in the know” about the Fix.
 

10/27/08          #463   CHICAGO
 

Cell Block Tango.A little fun, merging the musical with the 8MO.
 

11/11/08          #465   SECOND TIME AROUND
 

What About Roland Gehre?  Was he the urchin who tugged on Joe’s sleeve? He says it was so.
 

1/15/09            #473   JANUARY THAW
 

Is a Puzzlement.Meditation on a B-Sox image.
 

1/26/09            #474   PILGRIM’S PROGRESS
 

100 and Out.Bill Werber’s contribution.
 

2/2/09 #475   JUST AN IDEA
 

Speaking of B-Sox.The Hartford Courant reports on Cicotte’s grand jury statement: “I pitched my best.”
 

2/12/09            #476   A CONVENIENT AMNESIA
 

The Resurrection of Buck Weaver?  Mulling over Tejada’s “guilty knowledge” versus Buck’s. And A-Rod’s “Cicottish” confession.
 

2/23/09            #477   A SONG FOR ALL SINNERS
 

Getting Started.The new SABR B-Sox Research Committee.
Benefits.New info from SABR members; the Cincy connection.
Bits & Pieces.Tidbits from recent research at the HOF library. Notes from the minutes of the Natl Commission & the AL.
ProQuesting Again.Jackson paid by the Tooth Fairy, too?
That Poem I Mentioned Up Top.By Eugene Mangrove Rhodes.
 

3/3/09 #478   TIME MARCHES ON
 

Meanwhile, Back on the B-Sox Trail.Nelson Algren meets James T. Farrell; Ed Prell and Ray Schalk; the CSM on the Big Fix payoff.
Shine On? — Or Ed’s Cred.Cicotte denies the shine ball, but Ed has this credibility issue, it seems.
 

3/10/09            #479   SPRING HOPES ETERNAL
 

O, Happy Day.September 29, 1920, a Boston Globe nugget. Enter Otto Knabe.
Meanwhile, Back in Boston.If you read only the Globe ….
Worth Reprinting.Hugh Fullerton’s 10 Commandments of Sport.
More from Hughie.Fullerton on the extent of corruption, 1921.
What’s New on the B-Sox Trail.Highlights, 2005-2009.
 

3/17/09            #480  ON THE TRAIL AGAIN
 

Shine On … And On!  More on Cicotte’s mythical shine ball.
If You Have the Time. Where the Sox spent the winter of 1919-20.
Eddie Vs. Eliot.How Eddie is portrayed in 8MO , shiner & all.
Under-the-Stones Dept.Bill Burns & Billy Maharg revisited.
Fullerton ‘s File — Not Full.Hughie’s Cooperstown folder.
Scattered Tidbits on the Trail.Rush to support judgement in the press, in the wake of Cicotte’s grand jury appearance.
 

3/25/09   #481   THE FOURTH ESTATE
 

The Hits Keep on Comin’.Fullerton: 8MO not a housecleaning.
As I Sees ‘Em.Billy Evans on Lefty’s wildness, Lardner on umps.
Worth a Ponder.Otto Knabe and “Peaches Graham” (April Fools).
A Lot of Fish in the Ocean. Google can haul some in, too.
On the Screen of Sport.Fullerton on the Feud, and the extent of gambling’s ties with baseball and other sports.
Other Pressmen We Meet on the Trail.Isaminger, Wray & Farrell.
 

 

3/30/09   #482   DIGGING IT OUT
 

On the Screen of Sport.Fullerton writes in November 1919.
In Defense of Lefty.How wild was Williams in Game Two?
Lawyering Up — Or Down.The B-Sox got mixed legal advice.
CSI: CSM . The Christian Science Monitor yields some nuggets.
Gambling: The National Pastime.The Boston Globe & Attell.
Another Look at That Key Play in Game One.Kid Gleason, Grantland Rice and the CSM chime in on the Cicotte-Risberg boner.
And Another Look at Cicotte’s Muffs in Game Four.Gandil, Asinof and Rice.
Speaking of Salaries.Newspaper figures are always suspect.
In the Press Box — With Baxter. The WA Post on John Heydler.
Speaking of Heydler and Milwaukee…Harry Brigham on how the grand jury heard Joe Jackson’s statement.
The 1924 Trial Was Not the End of the Line.There were more lawsuits, and Ray Cannon got his shot at Judge Landis.
Baseball’s Ineligible List.Add Dolan & O’Connell and you get 11?
 

4/6/09    #483   ANOTHER OPENIN’ (DAY), ANOTHER SHOW
 

Shocked, Shocked , to Find Gambling at the Ballpark.TSN, in 1915.
B-Sox Salaries, 1918-1920.From the official AL records.
On the Screen of Sport.More of the best of Hugh Fullerton.
Nooks and Crannies.From coverage during and soon after the WS.
 

4/13/09    #484   CRADLE TO THE GRAVE
 

A Future Rookie?  There’s a Joe Jackson playing HS ball in SC.
Roots. Flashing Spikes by Frank O’Rourke, with a Swede character.
A Physicist on the B-Sox Trail.Some B-Sox humor with Niels Bohr.
On the Screen of Sport.Fullerton “dopes” the 1919 Series.
A Peek at the Asinof Papers.Compliments of David Fletcher.
 

4/29/09    #485   NOTES FROM HOME AND AWAY
 

Testing a Theory.Notes on 9/28/20 from Seattle and Vancouver.
One for Two.Recommended: Baseball and the Legal Mind .
For You Billy Maharg Fans.No contract, & his debut game.
B-Sox Bat Boy Tells All. Morrie Lebin opens up in 1959.
On the Screen of Sport.Fullerton — on October 11.
 

5/5/09   #486   SO MUCH TO READ, SO LITTLE TIME!
 

Eighteen Men Out — a PS.More on the “strike game” story.
The Swede Was a Hard Guy — to Live With.Just ask Agnes Risberg; and more on Swede’s days in outlaw ball.
On the Screen of Sport.More from Fullerton, October 1919.
Lost in Space: Chick Gandil’s 1920.Chick as manager, anecdote.
Beating the Bushes.Wendell Smith on Landis & the B-Sox; Heydler on the Commish; more on the shine ball (“mystery pitch”); Cal Crim’s obit; Cicotte on Gandil, 1956; Greasy Neale looks back; Swede Risberg covers the 1970 WS; Ted Williams’ campaign and an Eddie Collins’ story.
A Little Light on “Risbergate” — From 1922.Buck Weaver’s “Squawk” and some new info; Landis says Buck did it again 8 games into the 1920 season.
 

5/17/2009    #487   PENNSYLVANIA DIGGING
 

Early Encounters on the Trail.James Farrell meets Eliot Asinof.
Digging Up Old Stuff.Mining the Pittsburg(h) papers for B-Sox nuggets: how the scandal broke in the Steel City.
Nooks and Crannies. Newspaperarchive.com on the Pgh gamblers and the jucier reports about October 1919.
A Note on Peg.Westbrook Pegler talked to the players who snubbed Eliot Asinof a few years later.
Buck Weaver Versus Baseball.Buck’s reinstatement attempts.
 

 

5/25/2009   #488   NOTES ON THE RUN
 

Hearsay.The concession folks at the WS knew something was up.
Touchy Subject Indeed.Melissa Isaacson’s 2005 research, and some anecdotes about Asinof & Nemo Leibold.
Here’s What I Mean. Crimes & Trials of the Century , not recommended.
Speaking of B-Sox Documents.Link to Cook County’s cache.
Flashing Spikes Revisiting.O’Rourke probably didn’t meet Swede.
Speaking of Swede.He spoke up in Sioux Falls, in 1931.
Skeletons in the Closet.David Walsh’s non-story about Shoeless.
Why the Smaller Papers Can Be Fun.  Shano talks!
 

5/31/2009   #489   THERE’S GOLD IN THEM THAR DOCUMENTS
 

If You Go to San Francisco Chicago. Preliminary report on my visit to the Chicago History Museum.
Where to Begin?  Overview of the CHMD (Documents).
Box One, Folder One.Commy’s detectives’ reports.
Behind the Scenes in the Later Lawsuits.Lawyers strategizing.
All Star Lineup.Description of more items of interest.
 

6/4/2009    #490   THE CHICAGO PRESS
 

“All I Know Is What I Read in the Papers.”  Notes from a variety of Chicago newspapers as the scandal breaks. NOT the Trib.
General Joe.Jackson, right before he talks to the grand jury.
Surprises.“Did you get a bath, Eddie?”
Fred McMullin, the Missing Link.Ringleader for a day.
The Scoop on Happy Felsch’s “Confession.”  The full story, from the paper that carried Reutlinger’s interview.
1920, More Players Talking, And — A Girl Reporter?Well, apparently they couldn’t tell it to the grand jury anymore.
Back to Old Newspapers.The 8-Men-U for a B-Sox restaurant.
Another Peek at the Asinof Papers.Thanx to Paul Duffy.