A Review of Eight Men Out
By: Eliot Asinof
The time was the fall of 1919, the country lye on the doorstep of what was to be known as the roaring twenties, a time best described as when the country lost its innocence, a time when a people discovered the pleasures of sin. In 1919, the U.S. has just come out of World War I, at that time known as The Great War. Our service men had went overseas for long periods of time, and spent that time among cultures it had never seen, consequently bringing back part of it when they came home. This was a time of disruption in the country, the world had changed. It was now evident that man was capable of atrocities that could end the human race, and wars that could span long years and cost many lives. But the country could always rely on one thing, Baseball. The national pastime as it was called; heroes waged war on the diamond and were still seen as gentleman. The last great bastion of dignity, this grand old lady of baseball. But in......
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