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Eight White Sox Are Indicted- Cicotte and Jackson Confess Gamblers Paid Them $15,000
NY Tribune ^
| September 29, 1920
| Staff
Posted on 09/29/2020 5:15:01 PM PDT by NRx
Today's newspaper from 100 years ago fully digitized. (22 pgs)
(Excerpt) Read more at chroniclingamerica.loc.gov ...
TOPICS: History
KEYWORDS: 100yearsago; whitesoxscandal
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:15:01 PM PDT
by
NRx
To: NRx
Oh, no.... say it ain’t so.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:25:18 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.)
To: NRx
Poor old Shoeless Joe... couldn’t read or write but got sucked into this scam and - along with the truly guilty parties - banned forever from major league baseball.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:27:32 PM PDT
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.d)
To: NRx
They were acquitted though.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:31:18 PM PDT
by
fhayek
To: NRx
Build it and they will come.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:38:45 PM PDT
by
Veggie Todd
(Religion. It's like a History class. Without the facts.)
To: NRx
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:39:22 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: Veggie Todd
[Build it and they will come.]
Pay it and they will come.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:48:37 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: Veggie Todd
[Build it and they will come.]
Pay it and they will come.
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posted on
09/29/2020 5:48:37 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: NRx
Corruption and gambling in professional baseball was always a big theme in a lot of radio dramas and detective shows in the 1930s to 1950s. I guess it was a popular theme based on reality.
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