Saying It's So
A Cultural History of the Black Sox Scandal
Understanding narratives of baseball's darkest hour
Paper – $28
978-0-252-07313-7
eBook – $19.95
978-0-252-09198-8
Publication Date
Paperback: 08/10/2005
Series: Sport and Society
About the Book
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. 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. Saying It's So offers a series of astute reflections on what these different cultural narratives reveal about their creators and the eras in which they were created, producing a complex study of cultural values, memory, and the ways people make meaning.About the Author
Daniel A. Nathan is the Douglas Family Chair in American Culture, History, and Literary and Interdisciplinary Studies at Skidmore College. He is the editor of Rooting for the Home Team: Sport, Community, and Identity and coeditor of Baseball Beyond Our Borders: An International Pastime.Also by this author
Reviews
"Nathan's writing is completely accessible, his arguments sound, and his conclusions dead-on."--Chicago TribuneBlurbs
"Saying It's So is ambitious in its reach, well-researched, and clearly written. The range of texts it considers is impressive and important, and its readings of individual texts are invariably engaging."--Michael Oriard, author of Sporting with the Gods: The Rhetoric of Play and Game in American Literature
Awards
• Winner, NASSS BOOK AWARD (Sociology of Sport), 2003• Winner, Choice: Outstanding Academic Titles, 2006
• Winner, North American Society for Sport History Book Award (NASSH), 2003
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