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March 21, 2011

History Sports

Baseball’s Loss of Innocence

After the 1919 Black Sox scandal, Ring Lardner, America’s first great sportswriter, walked away from the game.

Douglas Goetsch The American Scholar Apr 2011 25min Permalink