Books
December, 1983
Hoopla (Knopf), by Harry Stein, is a fictional account of those years in the early part of this century when American life was so wide open that somebody even found a way to fix the world series. Stein beautifully catches the aura, the language and the characters of the time. Luther Pond is his inspired invention, a grizzled old sportswriter who covered that rigged 1919 White Sox series, and Buck Weaver was one of the eight Chicago players who were accused of throwing the games and then were dru...
