and the 2005 The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the 1919 Chicago White Sox for "Throwing" the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. In 1968, Asinof signed the "Writers and Editors War Tax Protest" pledge, vowing to refuse tax payments in protest against the Vietnam War. Asinof wrote other novels and nonfiction books unrelated to baseball including The Fox is Crazy Too (1976), the story of skyjacker Garrett Brock Trapnell. His career as a scriptwriter was curtailed when he was blacklisted for a time during the 1950s. Books 1955 online preview 1963. 1971 1976 1995 Screenplays 1988 Eight Men Out (with John Sayles) References External links 1919 births 2008 deaths Baseball writers American tax resisters United States Army soldiers United States Army personnel of World War II People from Manhattan Deaths from pneumonia in New York (state) Journalists from New York City Activists from New York (state) Sportswriters from New York (state) Swarthmore College alumni