The author of 8 Men Out is Eliot Asinof. Other books by this author are Man on Spikes. They both relate to baseball. The genre of this book is historical and sports non fiction.
The book is about the 1919 World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. The White Sox were the heavy favorites to win the World Series just because of how stacked they were against the Reds that year. However for the White Sox 8 players were paid by gamblers to throw the World Series. The eight men included in the scandal are; Chuck Gandil, Buck Weaver, Claude Williams,Eddie Cicotte, Oscar Felsch, Swede Risberg, Fred Mullin, and Joe “shoeless” Jackson.
I liked the book a lot because it is about baseball and it's something all baseball fans should know about because of how big of a scandal it was. If you like baseball this is definitely the book you should, or if you like sports in general.
Book Review by Trae R.
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