1919 black sox scandal
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• The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history.
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• Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (later nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds.
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• The 1919 World Series was expected to generate 50% more revenue than any other previous World Series.
• Opportunity for large profit was on the rise, due to attendance increase.
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William Burns• William “Sleepy Bill”
Burns was an ex major league pitcher.
• Will had the connection with White Sox players.
Billy Maharg• Bill had the gambling
connections underground.
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• Arnold Rothstein was the most successful and well known gambler in America. .
• Rothstein agreed to give Maharg $100,000 to fund the conspiracy.
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• Rothstein’s bodyguard relayed messages between Rothstein and Bill Maharg
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• The gamblers bet nearly half a million dollars on the Cincinnati Reds
• They agreed to pay the players of the White Sox $100,000 to split.
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• Left Fielder for White Sox• Originally didn’t want to be
involved in fix• Tried to warn owner
Comiskey, about scandal• Hit only homerun in World
Series
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The Games Begin
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• Chicago lost the first game 9-1, and the second game 4-1.
• Players not involved in the fix had growing suspicion.
• Catcher Ray Schalk noticed something wrong with the Sox pitching.
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• After the first two games, the conspirators only paid the players $10,000
• Players began to wonder whether or not they should continue to lose.
• Chicago won the third game 3-0.
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• Many of the gamblers bet on individual games
• They lost a large amount of money after the third game.
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• Chicago lost the fourth game 2-0 and the fifth game 5-0.
• Eddie Cicotte pitched the fourth game and made several errors.
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• After the fifth game, the gamblers missed another payment.
• The White Sox players realized they had no reason to lose.
• Every player on the White Sox tried as hard as they could to win the remainder of the games.
• Chicago won the sixth game 5-4 and the seventh game 4-1.
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• Arnold Rothstein had an enormous sum of money on Chicago to win the World Series
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• Claude Williams was pitching the ninth and final game of the world series.
• With Rothstein’s money at risk, he sent a bodyguard of his to threaten Claude Williams and his wife
• Claude Williams blew the eighth game, and the Chicago Black Sox lost 10-5.
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The Trial
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Time to Confess• Eddie Cicotte
admitted involvement in the Scandal
• Stood in front of Grand Jury and plead in tears
• First player to speak to Jury
• Joe Jackson was the second player to speak
• “I got a big load off my chest”
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Facing the Law
• All eight players, Bill Burns, Abe Attell, and along with others were indicted.
• Rothstein was not indicted by the jury, and moved on to bootlegging and drug dealing.
• Rothstein was eventually murdered by a gambler who accused him of fixing a poker game.
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• Federal Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis became baseball’s first commissioner
• Said the White Sox players could not be reinstated to MLB
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• Due to lack of evidence and missing confessions, the final verdict of the players was not guilty.
• After the trial, Commissioner Landis made sure the eight players did not play in the MLB again.
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• After the trial, many players played in semi-professional or in outlaw leagues.
• Joe Jackson opened a liquor store.
• Jackson died in 1951, shortly after being inducted in the Cleveland Baseball Hall of Fame.