The Black Sox Scandal was a very groundbreaking event in baseball history. Just imagine baseball without the drama of mistakes of players and organizations. The scandal lead to major problems within the team and around the organizations including; problems with baseball from the fans assuming all of baseball is faked and it wasn't just an incident it also lead to other major problems around the organization. Secondly players careers were highly affected, with their fan base, and their respectability through other teams and players. Lastly the whole teams reputation was greatly affected, and the team went on a dry streak for 86 years. The 1919 World Series had the biggest upset and led to many problems with baseball, players careers, and also the reputation of the Black Sox.
The scandal led to many problems throughout baseball, not only with the commissioner and other officials, but along with the fans as well. A big problem among the fans was that they were confused, and didn’t know if the scandal was just with individuals from the Black Sox, or throughout the whole league, and other organizations. Along with the confusion of the fans stumbled along was anger throughout other teams. “However it may seem that it didn’t have anything to do against other teams, it really hit hard in the participation of loyal fans”(Pellowski ). The team hurt the most however were the Reds, considering they thought they had just won a fair and square championship, only to find out that the game was intentionally thrown. Lastly fans lost much enjoyment in baseball, what they thought to be the best series in history turned out to be a fraud and thrown for the price of a quick dollar (Pellowski). The scandal lead to many problems in baseball, not o...
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Book Review of Eight Men Out The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series by Eliot Asinof
... Series and banned from baseball forever. Rays father felt his son had the potential to also be in the major leagues, but it was too late as he passed away before he could even play a game of catch with his son. Ray is confused and lost internally because of the loss of his father on such bad terms; this becomes a bigger tragedy than he ever thought. It may have even been a tragedy as big as the death of Joe Jackson who died guilty of throwing the World Series. He was never eased of his pain until after his death which was too late. Tragedies are not uncommon phenomena in life, Ray Kinsella and Shoeless Joe Jackson have the misfortune of living a struggle fulfilled life that only consists of tragic events around every corner of their lives.
The 1919 World series resulted in the most famous Scandal in Baseball history. Eight players from the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the series against the Reds and were banned from Major League Baseball. (“History files-Chicago Black Sox”) All eight players were expelled in an attempt to save the purity of the game. The White Sox lost the opening game of the series nine to one, and then ended up losing the series five games to three. (“Black Sox Scandal”) They had won the American league pennant and were highly favored to beat the Reds in the World Series. (“Bankston, Carl. L”)
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scandal of all time, The 1919 World series. Corruption, money, greed, power, and even organized
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