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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.
The Associated Press broke the story on December 21, 1926. [51] In 1919, gamblers bribed several members of the Chicago White Sox to throw the World Series. This became known as the Black Sox Scandal and was recounted in the 1963 book, Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series – which was later adapted for film.
The Cubs had won the first 2 games of the series (1984 marked the last time that the League Championship Series was a best-of-five series) over the Padres. Incidentally, Durham went 3-for-20 in the NLCS, garnering two of his three hits in the final two games on home runs (his shot in Game 4 had given the Cubs a 3–2 lead).
“I think falling short in the World Series will stay with me until I die,” says franchise player Aaron Judge, whose Game 5 was a journey in itself: A two-run homer to snap a lingering slump ...
The 2023 World Series will feature the Arizona Diamondbacks and Texas Rangers. Here are fun facts about the matchup, how to watch the baseball championship series, and more.
The 1947 World Series had Yogi and Jackie — but Bill Bevens was the story When the sides next hooked up in the World Series in 1947, they included a few notable new faces.
The Cubs had won 116 games that season and were favored to win; the White Sox had batted an anemic .230 with only seven home runs. The White Sox won the Series, four games to two. Fullerton subsequently used the data he collected to correctly predict the winners of the 1912, 1915, 1916 and 1917 World Series. [3]
Ratings for the World Series have been declining for years, the 2016 Fall Classic between the Chicago Cubs and the Cleveland Indians peaked at 40.05 million viewers and viewership has not reached ...