MLB And The 100th Anniversary of Black Sox Scandal.

Granville Wyche Burgess is a well-known authored who has the best-selling series of Rebecca Zook. Due to his amazing work, he has received awards including from the CBS/ Foundation for the Dramatist Guild, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Pennsylvania of Arts. The plays that he wrote are showcased all around America, including a major hit named Conrack which was a sold-out run at Ford’s Theatre and was also attended by President George W. Bush and the first lady Barbara Bush. He is also well known for Common Ground, which is a musical about Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln; this musical was a competitor of the finals of the New York New Works Theatre Festival. Aside from literary works that include books, plays or theatre, he is also the CEO of Quill Entertainment which is a company that works on charities. The company’s aim is to promote and raise awareness about America’s history as is said in their mission statement “Teaching America’s Heritage Through Story and Song”. To get in touch with Granville Wyche Burgess and to find out about all of the updates of his current or former works, you can visit his website http://granvilleburgess.com/

The Black Sox Scandal:

This event took place in the Major League Baseball scene when a match-fixing took place in which eight players from the Chicago White Sox intentionally lost the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for a handsome amount of money. The eight players were banned from professional baseball despite the public trial in 1921. MLB is a professional baseball organization and is considered to be one of the oldest of the four major professional sports leagues.

The Novel:

Burgess is writing a novel which revolves around the scandal of Black Sox and the innocence of Joe. The book is focused on explaining the transitioning events that unfold when Joe tells Comiskey about the fix but he ignored him. Joe died believing that the supreme being will be his judge only. It is an inspiring fictional tale in which the novel imagines Shoeless Joe Jackson, the outfielder who was dismissed in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. The novel has already picked up a good number of pre-publication. The plot is enveloped in lyrical and whimsical prose and the writer gives us an insight

Inspirations:

Burgess find the inspiration when he was playing baseball as a youth in 1950’s Greenville. He remembers that Joe Jackson was considered to be the ‘greatest natural hitter of all time’. Joe kept a very low profile. Years after the author read about the scandal, he realized that Joe is an innocent and truth should be known to everyone. That’s the sole reason why Burgess is publishing the novel on the 100th anniversary of Black Sox scandal.