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Charles Albert "The Old Roman" Comiskey was a larger-than-life physique - a guy who had perfection in his talk and who can work a room with handshakes and smiles. While he has been vilified in film as a rotund cheapskate and the driving a car push, albeit unknowingly, behind the actions of the 1919 White Sox, who threw the entire world Series (nicknamed the "Black Sox" scandal), that affirmation is far from the truth.In his five generations involved in football, Comiskey loved the activity through and through. It was his love, his life blood, and once he could combine his love for the game with his managerial skills, it was the entire deal for him. There is no other choice. He helped bring the White Sox to Chicago in 1900 and was a major influential push in working the American Little league from its inception. From changing what sort of first bottom part position was played out, to spreading the idea of "small ball" as a manager, to incorporating the community in his team's persona while he was an owner, Comiskey's style and knowledge advanced the overall standard for how football should be played out.Through thorough research from the National Archives, newspapers, and different other magazines, Tim Hornbaker not only instructs the full account of Comiskey's incredible life and the activity at the time, but also debunks the "Black Sox" controversy, demonstrating that Comiskey had not been the reason that the Sox threw the 1919 World Series.
