Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Baseball has had its share of problems with substance abuse from the inception. Prior to the 1970s, there were countless individual problems with alcohol abuse, but as alcohol was a legal substance during most of that time (except for the Prohibition era), alcohol was typically seen as a character weakness on the part of individuals. Public ...
1877 Louisville Grays scandal; 1904 World Series; 1910 Chalmers Award; 1919 World Series; 1957 Major League Baseball All-Star Game; 1984 Braves–Padres bean brawl; 1994 Cleveland Indians corked bat incident; 1998 Major League Baseball home run record chase; 1999 Major League Umpires Association mass resignation; 2001 Major League Baseball ...
Image credits: David M. Russell/CBS #6 MrBeast Faces Public Scrutiny. In 2024, Jimmy Donaldson, widely known as MrBeast, faced a series of controversies that challenged his public image and ...
Here are the five most surprising revelations from a case that will live on for decades in the weirdest annals of baseball history: 1. Ippei Mizuhara's gambling losses totaled more than $40 million
The eight "Chicago Black Sox" The Black Sox Scandal was a game-fixing scandal in Major League Baseball (MLB) in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for payment from a gambling syndicate, possibly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein.
Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman discuss the latest gambling scandal in MLB, the Dodgers-Pirates game from Tuesday night, Rhys Hoskins' return to Philadelphia, Gerrit Cole making a rehab start and ...
The Indians, knowing the bat was indeed corked, dispatched relief pitcher Jason Grimsley to retrieve the bat. Grimsley took a bat belonging to Indians player Paul Sorrento and accessed the area above the false ceiling in the clubhouse and crawled across with a flashlight in his mouth until he reached the umpires' room.
The former interpreter for Los Angeles Dodgers superstar Shohei Ohtani has agreed to plead guilty to a pair of federal criminal charges stemming from the gambling scandal that rocked the baseball ...