Wednesday, December 07, 2005

FOXSports.com - MLB- Black Sox scandal newspapers missing

Jason D. sends this LibraryStory
FOXSports.com - MLB- Black Sox scandal newspapers missing:
"Rare copies of a sports newspaper that was credited with uncovering the infamous 1919 Chicago White Sox gambling scandal are missing from a University of Illinois library.

Librarians discovered that two bound volumes of Collyer's Eye from the 1920s were missing this fall, around the time the White Sox won their first World Series in 88 years, said associate university librarian Karen Schmidt.

'As there was more and more interest in what the White Sox were doing, we began receiving more questions about their history,' Schmidt said. 'As those questions began to mount ... we began to understand the volumes were missing and that they are very, very rare.'

University police are working with library officials to find the books."

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