Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (Signed)

Eliot Asinof

Holtzman Pr, 1981

Flat signed by Eliot Asinof on front end page. Bound in publisher's cloth. Top edge gilt. Hardcover. Good binding and cover. Light edge wear. Clean, unmarked pages. x, 302 p., 23 cm. *Autographed by author.* 

Eliot Asinof (1919-2008) was an acclaimed author of numerous works of nonfiction and fiction, mostly dealing with sports and particularly baseball. (He played professional baseball briefly in the minor leagues before joining the Army and serving in World War II.) His most famous book, Eight Men Out (1963), an analysis of the Black Sox Scandal that followed in the wake of the 1919 World Series, was made into a successful film of the same name in 1988. Asinof was also an accomplished amateur pianist, sculptor, and carpenter.