The 30 Greatest Sports Conspiracy Theories of All-Time: Ranking Sports' Most Notorious Fixes, Cover-ups, and Scandals

by Elliott Kalb

Separating fact from myth, Kalb attempts to determine which of these long-held conspiracy theories hold water, and which ones fall flat under scrutiny. Ranking the conspiracies from 1 to 30 and the likelihood of each conspiracy from 1 to 5, Kalb boldly

Genres: Sports, Nonfiction, History

368 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2009

Reviews

[Adam Foster · Rating 1 out of 5]

Poorly written, no evidence of ANY research, a complete piece of you-know-what. I got it for a $1 at the library and I still overpaid. . .

[Katie]

I ended up flipping through most of this. I'm not sure this is really conspiracies so much as . . . things that happened.

Though this book did make me realize I have a lot more knowledge of late 80's/early 90's basketball than I realized. Baseball, too, of course, but that was on purpose! The basketball knowledge I guess I just picked up unintentionally from my basketball-obsessed sister.

[Don · Rating 3 out of 5]

The author recounts and opines on 30 situations that may or may not have been conspiracies (most of them are in his opinion, else he wouldn't have a book). Most of them are interesting and only a few seem contrived.

[Jenn Davis · Rating 3 out of 5]

Interesting but I don't know enough about sports to understand some of the chapters.