[bigboydan]

perty interesting read. so, ii thought i'd share it with you guys.

Rare tabloid with 1919 White Sox stories missing

December 6, 2005


URBANA-- Rare copies of a sports newspaper containing articles about 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.

Collyer's Eye was a weekly sports and gambling tabloid credited with revealing the so-called Black Sox scandal, when eight White Sox players were charged with throwing the 1919 World Series.

Librarians and historians said the copies at the University of Illinois library could be the only publicly accessible reports on the scandal.

The library still has 15 other volumes of Collyer's Eye that were published as late as 1944, but they have been removed from shelves and cannot be checked out, Schmidt said.

"There really isn't anything out there exactly like this," Schmidt said. "It is not like you lose Time, but you still have Newsweek."

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"There really isn't anything out there exactly like this," Schmidt said. "It is not like you lose Time, but you still have Newsweek."



Nice quote from the librarian. After they're already missing.

[picantel]

U of I has a huge library system. They just keep going on and on and on...