How Did The Black Sox Trial Affect Baseball Today

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Baseball is america's favorite pastime. Baseball has had a lot of conversty in its years. How did the black sox trial affect baseball today


On October 9th, 1919 the Cincinnati Reds defeated the Chicago White Soxs the heavily favored team ten to five (Solomon, Alan). Rumors were flying from before the first pitch was thrown about if the game was fixed game. Then months after the bad world series game people started to say that gamblers paid off some off the white sox players to intentionally lose the game. It all started when the first baseman c. arnold they call chick gandil meet up with this gambler joseph sport sullivan met up to discuss some players throwing the world series. The white sox were the divided team they were a half and half team but one …show more content…

The team exchanged tips about throwing the world series so there were eight people involved in throwing the world series. They knew it was gonna be a difficult and risky thing to try to throw the world series and get away with it. The players that were involved too was, pitchers Eddie cicotte and claude ‘’lefty’’ williams (Andrews, Evan). Shortstop charles swede risberg and outfielder oscar ‘’happy’’ felsch, third basemen buck wever. Infielder fred mcmullin and the power hitter shoeless joe jackson. The world series started and the fix was going as planned the white sox were lost the first nine to one and lost three more and then. It all changed when the white sox player got way less from the gamblers then they were supposed to so they called the fix off and started to play to win and they came back winning game six. The white sox players started getting death threats from the gangster gamblers and said they were going to kill their families.they cinnati

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