Posted on 08/03/2021 5:21:05 AM PDT by DFG
Eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox, also known as The Black Sox, were banned from Major League Baseball, for life; on August 3, 1921. Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis. (He was known as Judge Landis. Prior to becoming Baseball Commissioner, he served 17 years as a Federal judge.) issued this statement:
“Regardless of the verdict of juries, no player who throws a ballgame, no player that undertakes or promises to throw a ballgame, no player that sits in conference with a bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball.”
Landis’s ban came the day after a Chicago jury acquitted the players of all the charges that they had faced.
Until the recent uproar over performance enhancing drugs, the Black Sox affair stood as the most spectacular scandal in baseball history, if not all of sports.
(Excerpt) Read more at sportshistorytoday.com ...
https://www.baseball-reference.com/bullpen/Black_Sox_Scandal
Banned Players:
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson Eddie Cicotte Oscar "Happy" Felsch Claude "Lefty" Williams Arnold "Chick" Gandil Fred McMullin Charles "Swede" Risberg George "Buck" Weaver
Say it ain’t so, Joe, Say it ain’t so..................
We need a lot more justice, quick and ‘final’.
There are some people who believe from the very first series (1903) all the way to 1919...baseball was corrupted during the seasons, and up to the World Series. This banning business was the only way to get players/coaches into the mindset...it wouldn’t be accepted.
The 1988 movie ‘Eight Men Out‘ covered this scandal. Great film!
The movie’s trailer is here:
“Black Sox”? Sounds racist.
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He was a reluctant participant and only took the half of the $10,000 bribe offered to the other players because he felt he had earned it as he almost certainly would have had he been allowed to make even two of his last three scheduled starts.
He later had a nephew that played in the major leagues.
I’ve been saying that all year....
The great first baseman Hal Chase was known to have bet on his games and probably threw games. He continued playing. There were even reports that Cobb and Speaker were involved in fixing a game.
Judge Landis was a Cubs fan.
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