@article{330968,
      recid = {330968},
      author = {Nathan, Daniel A.},
      title = {Saying it's so : a cultural history of the Black Sox  scandal /},
      publisher = {University of Illinois Press,},
      address = {Urbana :},
      pages = {viii, 285 p. :},
      year = {2005},
      abstract = {Publisher's description: The story of "Shoeless" Joe  Jackson and his teammates purportedly conspiring with  gamblers to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds  has lingered in our collective consciousness for more than  eighty years. With baseball so closely linked to American  values and ideals, the Black Sox Scandal of 1919  disenchanted baseball fans, changed the way Americans felt  about the national pastime, and fostered changes in the  game. Daniel A. Nathan's wide-ranging, interdisciplinary  cultural history is less concerned with the details of the  scandal than with how it has been represented and  remembered by journalists, historians, novelists,  filmmakers, and baseball fans. Offering insights into what  different cultural narratives reveal about their creators  and the eras in which they were produced, Saying It's So is  a complex study of cultural values, memory, and the ways  people make meaning. Addressing the relationship between  cultural narratives and social reality, Nathan considers  the media's coverage of scandal--from front-page attention  to scathing commentaries and cartoons--when the story broke  in 1920 and in the following years. He also examines how  oral tradition reiterated the scandal before new narratives  began to appear at midcentury. In a series of astute  reflections on Bernard Malamud's novel The Natural, Eliot  Asinof's popular history Eight Men Out, and the work of the  historians David Voigt and Harold Seymour, Nathan sheds  light on the ways cultural and historical meaning is  produced. Also considered are representations of the  scandal in popular fiction and film during the Reagan era,  the popular tourist destination and baseball field in  Dyersville, Iowa, created for the film Field of Dreams, Ken  Burns's television documentary Baseball, and the country's  reactions to the 1994-95 Major League Baseball strike.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/330968},
}