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13 Items Tagged With ‘Sports Scandals’

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The Dark Side of the Diamond

The Dark Side of the Diamond

By Roger Abrams

Roger Abrams latest book discusses the vices of baseball and how they reflect American society. The Dark Side of the Diamond relates little-known…

£15.99(Hardback)
Wrestling Babylon

Wrestling Babylon

By Irvin Muchnick

Professional wrestling's most notorious scandals and drug-fueled spectacles are laid out using insider details and investigative journalism in this…

£11.99(Paperback)
Hold The Back (and Front) Page

Hold The Back (and Front) Page

By Harry Harris

In his 30-year career as Britain's foremost football reporter, Harry Harris has uncovered numerous headline-making exposes. From the sensational story…

£16.99 £15.29 (Save 10%)(Hardback)
Peter Swann

Peter Swann

By Peter Swann, Nick Johnson

Top footballers in today's game enjoy multi-millionaire status - it is quite remarkable that Swan ruined his career for the sake of winning 100pounds…

£17.99 £16.19 (Save 10%)(Hardback)
Boxing's Hall of Shame

Boxing's Hall of Shame

By Thomas Myler

In Boxing's Hall of Shame, Thomas Myler tells the inside stories of the real fight game. He reveals the sport's heroes and villains, mobsters and…

£10.99 £9.89 (Save 10%)(Paperback)
Burying the Black Sox

Burying the Black Sox

By Gene Carney

Most fans today know that gamblers and ballplayers conspired to fix the 1919 World Series-the Black Sox Scandal. It has been touched upon in classic…

£16.99(Hardback)
Out of Bounds

Out of Bounds

By Jeff Benedict

The paperback edition of the controversial, in-depth look at criminals in the NBA, from Jeff Benedict, author of Pros and Cons and an expert on…

£8.99(Paperback)
Free the Manchester United One

Free the Manchester United One

By Graham Sharpe

In 1915 one of the most shameful occasions in sporting history took place. The players of Manchester United and Liverpool conspired to arrange that…

£9.99(Paperback)
Foul Play

Foul Play

By David Thomas

Most would see the heretics of match fixing put through a task at least as bad as Wayne Sleep's rat munching ordeal, so an expose of what went on at…

£12.99(Hardback)
Ringers and Rascals

Ringers And Rascals

By David Ashforth

With trans-Atlantic chutzpah, Peter Christian Barrie painted horses, tricking bookmakers across the world out of millions of dollars. Disciples…

£16.99(Hardback)
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It's A Fact!

Barry White was the arranger of 'Harlem Shuffle' by Bob & Earl...not strictly a sporting fact, but an interesting one nonetheless!

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