Scandals in baseball history, the black sox scandals where members of the Chicago White sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds, and it brought about many changes in baseball including getting a commissioner and getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that is not really a simple one. It is very complicated. So, the title of tonights talk is called field of myths, 100 years after baseballs 1919 black sox scandal. Finally separating the many myths from the reality. And so this should be a fascinating talk and im excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker to night. Thank you. Yeah, we are gathered here tonight on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew if there was going to be another world series once that scandal was exposed and whether trust in baseball was starting to evaporate rapidly. And as david said, thats, you know, eight men out. That is the story that we know. That is the t
And judge and jury the life and times of the judge Kennesaw Mountain landis. Were very fortunate tonight to have an esteemed historian and awardwinning writer, who is not only an historian but hes very into baseball. So, its a good combination because right now its the 100th an verse of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history. The black sox scandal where members of the Chicago White sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds. And it brought about many changes in baseball, including getting a commissioner and getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life. So but the story of that is not really a simple one. Its very complicated. So, the title of tonights talk is called field of myths 100 years after baseballs 1919 black sox scandal, finally separating the many myths from the reality. So this should be a fascinating talk. And i am excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker tonight. Well, thank you. [ applause ] yeah, wer
Also on tonights show, theres a hotel in space. Native americans are taking their land back, and Elizabeth Warren goes head to head with donald trump. So lets catch up on todays headlines. Lets kick it off with sean spicer, former press secretary and human dilbert. Like most people President Trump hires, spicer left the administration with his reputation in tatters. But if theres one thing american loves, its a comeback. Former White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer making his debut on dancing with the stars and it wasnt entirely pretty. His partner a former champ described him as dancing at a prepreschool level. The judge said of a performance is it was like you were being attacked by a swarm of wasps. Trevor damn the judges did not like spicers dancing or at least thats how it sounded last night. But today sean spicer said it was actually the best performance they had ever seen of all time. laughter honestly, i think spicer will be perfect for dancing with the stars. Pretend you kno
Fuck sully. [ laughter ] turns out i owe all women a huge apology. You can apparently handle things a million times better than any man ever. As most of you know, im in the process of getting my pilots license, and i made a recording of how i believe i would handle the very same situation. [ laughter ] under my command, not one passenger made it out alive. Not one. Goodnight. [ cheers and applause ] from Comedy Centrals world news headquarters in new york, this is the daily show with trevor noah. cheers and applause trevor welcome to the daily show, everybody thank you so much for tuning in and thank you for coming out as always, wow lets do it our guests tonight are the creators and stars of south side right here on Comedy Central, Bashir Salahuddin and diallo riddle are joining us, everybody cheers and applause also on tonights show, theres a hotel in space. Native americans are taking their land back, and Elizabeth Warren goes head to head with donald trump. So lets catch up on toda
Thank you for coming to this panel. At 2 45. True crime across america. Im the graduate dean at jackson state university, and im happy to be here as a room coordinator. Well have 45 minutes for the session and then leave 15 for q a. The sponsors for our panel are cecile and nancy brown. Are they with us . [applause] im happy to introduce our moderator for this session, james, at i skipped over. Curtis wilkie. An associate prefer of journalism at the university of mississippi and fellow at the university oses center for southern journalism and politics and will take over. Thank you and thank you all for coming, and we appreciate the presence of our guest on the panel here at the mississippi book festival. Its getting bigger and better every year. Im going to start off by introducing very briefly our guests, and well carry on a discussion and i hope you all will have some questions for the panel toward the end of hour our hour. Karen abbott is bestsale august authorize of several books a