Crooked a history of cheating in sports
| Main Author: | Zimniuch, Fran. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Lanham, Md. :
Taylor Trade Pub. : Distributed by National Book Network,
c2009.
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Table of Contents:
- Cheating athletes : reflecting society or infecting society?
- The shame of America's game : the 1919 Black Sox World Series fix
- Gamblers not so anonymous in basketball : the point-shaving scandal of 1951
- Baseball : spit, corks, periscopes, & superstitions
- Football : proceeding illegally : Spygate, stickum, cheap shots, & recruiting
- Hockey : slashing at the rules
- Basketball : in the penalty with official incompetence
- Tarnished gold : Olympic and amateur athletic cheating
- Creating the Frankenstein athlete : the drug culture in sports
- Son of Frankenstein : the tradition of coping, a sad sports legacy
- Victor Conte : the Pied Pier of BALCO
- The Mitchell Report : naming names
- The end of games : the Taylor Hooten tragedy
- The Big Fix : fixing society
- not just sports.