Episode 312: "Double Plays and Double Crosses"

Baseball by the Book

Justin McGuire

Authors, Baseball, Books, Statistics, Sports, History, Arts

4.9 • 655 Ratings

🗓️ 29 June 2021

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

In 1920, as rumors about the previous World Series swirled, the White Sox battled the Indians and Babe Ruth's Yankees for the American League pennant. All the while, questions abounded: How much did baseball know about the 1919 fix? Why were the crooked players allowed to play? Were they still throwing games? Don Zminda joins us to discuss a remarkable baseball season.

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0:00.0	Hey, everybody, I'm Justin McGuire, and this is Baseball by the Book, the only podcast that matters.
0:24.5	That's right, folks, you're once again listening to Baseball by the Book, the podcast in which we talk to authors of baseball books past and present.
0:32.1	Today, author Don Zaminda returns to the podcast to talk about his new book, Double Plays and Double Crosses.
0:39.6	We'll get to that in just a minute.
0:42.5	First, though, I'd like to thank the following people for supporting baseball by the book
0:46.9	on Patreon.
0:49.0	Scott Howard, Jonathan Eig, Mark, Rusty Staples, Ryan Ryder, Bob Salazar, Tim Cooyers, Frank Lopez, and David Vought.
1:02.4	Okay, let's get on to today's episode. Don Ziminda has written or edited more than a dozen sports books.
1:10.0	He was previously on the podcast to talk about the legendary Harry Carey,
1:15.1	baseball's greatest salesman, which was a finalist for the Casey Award in 2019.
1:21.1	Today he's here to discuss double plays and double crosses,
1:25.2	the Black Sox and Baseball in 1920.
1:29.4	Let's get started.
1:32.9	Hi, Don, welcome back to Baseball by the book.
1:35.9	Hey, Justin, that's great to be back with you.
1:37.6	When I first saw the title of your book back in the, you know,
1:40.3	I must have been in the early winter when I was looking at, you know,
1:42.7	the baseball books that were coming out in 2021.
1:45.5	I was really intrigued by the topic because, obviously, a lot has been written about the Black Sox.
1:51.5	A lot has been written about the 1919 World Series.
1:54.6	There's been several Joe Jackson biographies.
1:57.1	I recently did an episode on Eddie Seacott.
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