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Eliot Tager Asinof (July 13, 1919 – June 10, 2008) was an American writer of fiction and nonfiction best known for his writing about baseball. His most famous book was Eight Men Out, a nonfiction reconstruction of the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
Jun 11, 2008 · Eliot Asinof, whose journalistic re-creation of the 1919 Black Sox scandal, “Eight Men Out,” became a classic of both baseball literature and narrative nonfiction, died Tuesday in Hudson, N.Y. He...
Jun 24, 2008 · Jeff Kisseloff pays tribute to Eliot Asinof, who died in 2008, and his life of rebellion and activism. He recounts their friendship, Asinof's work on Eight Men Out and the blacklist, and his views on politics and culture.
Eliot Asinof is the author of Eight Men Out (4.05 avg rating, 10952 ratings, 400 reviews, published 1963), Eight Men Out (4.12 avg rating, 74 ratings, 10...
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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.)
Eliot Asinof's Eight Men Out recounts the rigging of the 1919 World Series, where eight members of the Chicago White Sox threw the series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payoffs from crime boss Arnold Rothstein and associates.
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Jun 12, 2008 · Eliot Asinof, 88, a one-time minor league baseball player who traded a first baseman's mitt and spikes for a pad and pen and who wrote the definitive book on the 1919 Chicago Black Sox scandal,...
