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    The 1919 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 1919 season. The 16th edition of the World Series, it matched...
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    when the series was canceled due to the players' strike. The best-of-seven style has been the format of all World Series except in 1903, 1919, 1920, 1921...
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    corruption in professional athletics, including conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series. He was also a mentor of future crime bosses Lucky Luciano, Meyer...
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    The World Series is the annual final championship series of Major League Baseball (MLB) in the United States and Canada. It has traditionally been held...
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    eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of losing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds on purpose in exchange for money from...
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  • The 1919 Chicago White Sox season was their 19th season in the American League. They won 88 games to advance to the World Series but lost to the Cincinnati...
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    scandal in the 1919 World Series, in which the favored White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games. The "fixing" of the 1919 World Series is the only...
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  • Eight Men Out (category Films set in 1919)
    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...
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    him with the idea to fix the 1919 World Series. I had only social contacts with gamblers until that September day in 1919 when Sullivan walked up to Eddie...
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  • The 1981 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1981 season. The 78th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven...
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    speculator, and labor racketeer, who was best known for fixing the 1919 World Series. In 1915, Arnstein was convicted of swindling, and the following year...
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  • The 2017 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 2017 season. The 113th edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven...
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    The 1919 Cincinnati Reds season was a season in American baseball. The Reds won the National League pennant, then went on to win the 1919 World Series. The...
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    initiate the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Sullivan was a known gambler in the Boston area who reportedly bet heavily on the 1903 World Series, and in fact...
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    League Baseball. He is probably best known for his involvement in the 1919 World Series fix, known as the Black Sox Scandal. Williams was born in Aurora,...
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  • The 1966 World Series was the championship series of Major League Baseball's (MLB) 1966 season. The 63rd edition of the World Series, it was a best-of-seven...
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    favored in the 1919 World Series, but lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games. Huge bets on the Reds fueled speculation that the series had been fixed...
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    Black Sox Scandal in the 1919 World Series, did not make it to another World Series until 1959, and did not win another World Series until 2005. AL Chicago...
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    Sox Scandal, in which members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series. As a result, Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain...
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    "[page needed] Rothstein was allegedly responsible for fixing the 1919 World Series.[page needed] At the same time, the Jewish bootlegging mob known as...
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    for the 1917 World Series champion White Sox, then was one of the eight players banned from the Major Leagues for his connection to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal...
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    Edd Roush (category Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers)
    two-time National League (NL) batting champion and led the team to the 1919 World Series championship. He also played for the New York Giants, Chicago White...
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    Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring to lose the 1919 World Series and repeatedly refused their reinstatement requests. His iron rule...
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  • respectively, with the White Sox winning the 1917 World Series but losing the 1919 World Series in the infamous Black Sox scandal. The White Sox did...
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    Burns was best known for his involvement in the alleged fixing of the 1919 World Series, dubbed the Black Sox Scandal. Burns played in the minor leagues from...
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    1910s (redirect from 1910–1919)
    Chirico Robert Frost Arnold Rothstein, gangster, gambler, fixed the 1919 World Series Henry Ford, founder of the Ford Motor Company Nikola Tesla, electrical...
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    baseball was rocked by the Black Sox Scandal, a conspiracy to fix the 1919 World Series. Baseball survived the scandal, albeit with major changes in its governance...
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    Black Sox Scandal involving the fixing of the 1919 World Series. Nolan is also the former Guinness World Record holder for most donuts stacked in a tower...
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    travel during the Series, the 2-3-2-2 format that was used in 1919 was changed to 3-4-2. Notably, all seven games of the 1920 World Series were won by the...
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    in 1919 World Series versus the Cincinnati Reds. However, a group of White Sox players, including Risberg, agreed to intentionally lose the series in...
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