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Frank WakefieldThe Black Prince of Baseball: Hal Chase and the Mythology of the Game, by Donald Dewey and Nicholas Acocella... look at www.abebooks.com or, A Prince at First, The Fictional Autobiography of Baseball's Hal Chase, by Ed Dinger.
And a REALLY good way to get a grip on the Blacksox thing is to read Rothstein: The Life, Times, and Murder of the Criminal Genius Who Fixed The 1919 World Series by David Pietrusza. It is really good. You have to slow down and not have phone calls or family talking to you while you get through the fix. The idea is that Rothstein, not wanting to take a chance on his fix falling through, had two separate fixes going on at the same time... this is one fine book. Abe Atell, Sleepy Burns (in T206), Jean Dubuc (also in T206) and Hal Chase are in the book. Chase knew most players in the game, knew who to talk to, attended meetings... This is a 2003 book that gets way beyond what is in Asinof's Eight Men Out. Highly recommended if you're digging as far as one can go into the Black Sox mess 80 plus years later.