Sean Deveney: 5 books

Book cover of The Original Curse: Did the Cubs Throw the 1918 World Series to Babe Ruth's Red Sox and Incite the Black Sox Scandal?
by Sean Deveney
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2009

IN THE GRAND TRADITION OF EIGHT MEN OUT . . . the untold story of baseball’s ORIGINAL SCANDAL Did the Chicago Cubs throw the World Series in 1918—and get away with it? Who were the players involved—and why did they do it? Were gambling and corruption more widespread across...
Book cover of Win Like Lin: Finding Your Inner Linsanity on the Way to Breakout Success
by Sean Deveney
Language: English
Release Date: April 13, 2012

The six rules of success that launched Jeremy Lin from underdog to NBA superstar In Win Like Lin, award-winning sports writer Sean Deveney, breaks down Jeremy Lin’s winning game plan to help you create your own success story. Before he joined the New York Knicks, Harvard-graduate Jeremy...
Book cover of Before Wrigley Became Wrigley

Before Wrigley Became Wrigley

The Inside Story of the First Years of the Cubs? Home Field

by Sean Deveney
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014

Chicago’s Wrigley Field opened in 1914 as Weeghman Park, the new North Side stadium erected for use by the Federal League’s Chicago team, which would eventually be called the Whales. It was built in just 50 days, with an rectangular shape in the style of New York’s Polo Grounds, designed to...
Book cover of Fun City

Fun City

John Lindsay, Joe Namath, and How Sports Saved New York in the 1960s

by Sean Deveney
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015

On January 1, 1966, New York came to a standstill as the city’s transit workers went on strike. This was the first day on the job for Mayor John Lindsay—a handsome, young former congressman with presidential aspirations—and he would approach the issue with an unconventional outlook that would...
Book cover of Greed and Glory

Greed and Glory

The Rise and Fall of Doc Gooden, Lawrence Taylor, Ed Koch, Rudy Giuliani, Donald Trump, and the Mafia in 1980s New York

by Sean Deveney
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

On October 28, 1986, just one day after winning one of the most thrilling World Series in history, the New York Mets were feted by more than two million fans with a parade through the city. In news accounts of the event, there was a small aside, as this one in the New York Times: "Notable in his absence...
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