Eliot Asinof
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Eliot Asinof (b. 1919-07-13d. 2008-06-10) is a writer about baseball. He wrote the book 8 Men Out about the 1919 Black Sox scandal, which was later turned into a film.
[edit] Biography
Asinof attended and graduated from Swarthmore College in 1940. From there, he played for the Philadelphia Phillies’ Minor League, a baseball organization. Much of Asinof’s life was built around the sport of baseball. He was born the same year as the 1919 World Series Scandal between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Red Sox. Asinof, in his later years, wrote about the scandal and other baseball stories. Some of his published stories also became movies, such as the book 8 Men Out, published in 1963; it became the film Eight Men Out in 1988. Some of his works, other than books, that involve the scandal include TV documentaries such as the 2001 ESPN Sports Century Flashback: The 1919 Black Sox Scandal and the 2005 The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the 1919 Chicago White Sox for "Throwing" the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.
[edit] References
- Gould, Stephen Jay. "Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series." Holtzbrinck Publishers, 2006. Holtzbrinck Publishers, 8 Nov 2007 [1].
- The Internet Movie Database Inc., "Biography for Eliot Asinof." The Internet Movie Database Inc., 2007. The Internet Movie Database Inc., 10 Nov 2007 [2].
