"Pietrusza masterfully handles tangled facts, the myriad double-crosses, and the swirling cast of characters surrounding the Black Sox Scandal. He reveals Rothstein to have been at the very center of the conspiracy and playing both ends against the middle so that he couldn't possibly lose. This account challenges that with which most of us are familiarEliot Asinof's in Eight Men Outbut is so exhaustively researched that it seems likely to remain the definitive version of events." www.brothersjudd.com |