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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.
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The events of the 1919 World Series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, in which several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers, allegedly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein, to throw the series. It was the last World Series to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place.
The Black Sox Scandal refers to a number of events that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series. The name "Black Sox" also refers to the Chicago White Sox team from that era. Eight members of the Chicago franchise were banned from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games.
One hundred years ago, eight Chicago White Sox players schemed to throw the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds, tainting the Reds' title.
He was one of eight players permanently ineligible for professional baseball for his alleged participation in the Black Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series, in which the favored White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games. [3] The "fixing" of the 1919 World Series is the only recognized gambling scandal to tarnish a World Series. [4]
One of the notorious marks on major league baseball, the 1919 World Series between the White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds, gets an examination by the Illinois Supreme Court Historic Preservation ...
Eight Men Out is a 1988 American sports drama film based on Eliot Asinof's 1963 book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. It was written and directed by John Sayles . The film is a dramatization of Major League Baseball 's Black Sox Scandal , in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to ...