The boys of bummer: Novel goes to heart of what baseball lost in 1919...

Columbus Dispatch (Columbus, OH);  March 11, 2007 ;     624 words ......James T. Farrell novel Dreaming Baseball knows all about yesterdays...such as third baseman Buck Weaver and starting pitcher...in four words: I was dreaming baseball. Boys dream of the future...Mountain Landis. But Dreaming Baseball is not about a crime...fall from Eden ...

Nelson Algren's poem on Buck Weaver

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 28, 2000 ;     35 words ..."Don't bring up Buck Weaver Or how he looked that last time you saw him Begging a reporter six months out of high school To clear his name so he could play again. `I'll play for nothing, tell 'em. Just one season, tell 'em!' "

Gotta have heart: Gifts to soothe the disillusioned baseball...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  December 21, 2007 ;     612 words ......even if it arrives 50 years after Farrell began it. Dreaming Baseball, as it's now called, was one of two baseball books Farrell...Farrell could be a wooden stylist, and that afflicts Dreaming Baseball, too. But, as Chandler wrote about Hemingway's Across...were, It ain't true, Joe! ) It's all ...

Irving M. Stein

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 3, 1992 ;   Bob Herguth;   248 words ......took 13 years of effort, but his first book has been published. It's The Ginger Kid: The Buck Weaver Story. ABOUT BUCK WEAVER Third baseman Buck Weaver was among eight Chicago "Black Sox" banned from baseball after the 1919 World Series, which...

Niece tells ordeal of a `Black Sox'

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 4, 1988 ;   Art Petacque;   655 words ......Black Sox" star third baseman George "Buck" Weaver carries bittersweet memories of her...native John Cusack portrays third baseman Buck Weaver as a slightly naive, classy fellow who...shattered." How good a third baseman was Buck Weaver? His agility and rifle arm were such...

The wrong man out Forget Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver was wronged...

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 28, 2000 ;   Greg Couch;   787 words ......to several sports historians, it is Buck Weaver. "The case against Buck is that he didn...Stein, who wrote The Ginger Kid: The Buck Weaver Story. "He did attend a meeting with...He's probably right," Holtzman said. "Buck Weaver was not a participant, but he knew the...

Buck Weaver

Archive Photos;  September 1, 1994 ;     82 words ......teamwork. competition. grimace. action Weaver, Buck. outdoor Buck Weaver engages in some light catch during baseball's 1918 spring training...White Sox sports & physical fitness. historical. people Buck Weaver Copyright (c) Archive Photos.

RESULTS

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 29, 2000 ;     33 words ...Do you think the baseball commissioner should clear the name of "Black Sox" player Buck Weaver? YES: 88% NO: 12% TODAY'S QUESTION Did the Bulls make the right picks? (Sports) YES: (847) 326-0933 NO: (847) 326-0904

Bette Scanlan, first woman in financial news at the Sun

Chicago Sun-Times;  May 11, 2002 ;   Brenda Warner Rotzol;   391 words ......Brothers. One of her aunts married White Sox third baseman Buck Weaver, who was on the 1919 "Black Sox" team that lost the scandal-riddl...interviewed by Irving M. Stein when he wrote The Ginger Kid: The Buck Weaver Story, seeking to rehabilitate her uncle's memory. Stein said...

MORNINGLINE

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 28, 2000 ;     48 words ......No. 4 overall)? Select Chris Mihm: 7% Select Darius Miles: 82% Trade the pick: 11% TODAY'S QUESTION Do you think the baseball commissioner should clear the name of "Black Sox" player Buck Weaver? (Page 146) YES: (847) 326-0933 NO: (847) 326-0904

Robert C. Cottrell. Blackball, the Black Sox, and the Babe: Baseball's...

Nine;  September 22, 2003 ;   Strecker, Trey;   606 words ......casts a wider net. Developed as a collective biography of Buck Weaver, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Babe Ruth, and Rube Foster...Collins, Cottrell's presentation appears largely sympathetic to Buck Weaver's dilemma--with guilty knowledge of the Black Sox fix, the...

Pontiac woman going to bat for uncle Group to protest Weaver's baseball...

The Pantagraph Bloomington, IL;  July 3, 2003 ;   M.K. Guetersloh;   369 words ......Marge Follett is passionate about clearing the name of George "Buck" Weaver. "I want him to be free," Follett said. "I want him to be...committed to clearing Weaver's name. "I think he may be more of a Buck Weaver fan than I am, if that is possible," Follett said of Fletcher...

He's no shoo-in: Fans want Shoeless Joe Jackson in Hall of Fame.

Chicago Tribune (via Knight-Ridder/Tribune News Service);  December 12, 2002 ;     787 words ......supporters of Black Sox third baseman Buck Weaver, who proclaimed his innocence until...baseball, but why does he deserve to if Buck Weaver doesn't? asked Marjorie Follett of Pontiac...Bud Selig. `If Rose is cleared, then Buck Weaver should be.' A spokesman for Selig's...

This Sox' drought short one With only 7 trips to postseason, wait of seven...

Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  October 3, 2000 ;   Maciaszek, Marty;   787 words ......the pitching staff. Collins, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg and Buck Weaver were a solid infield with Hall of Famer Ray Schalk catching...movie Eight Men Out, starring John Cusack and Charlie Sheen. Buck Weaver hit .324 in the Series and protested his innocence until his...

Weaver's career statistics

Chicago Sun-Times;  June 28, 2000 ;     57 words ...GIVEN NAME: George Daniel "Buck" Weaver BORN: Aug. 18, 1890, Pottstown, Pa. DIED: Jan. 31, 1956, Chicago Year Team Games AVG HR RBI 1912 Sox 147 .224 1 43 1913 Sox 151...