The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of losing the 1919... 42 KB (5,391 words) - 15:09, 26 April 2024 |
Black Sox are black-coloured Socks Black Sox may also refer to: Black Sox Scandal, a 1919 Major League Baseball gambling scandal Curse of the Black Sox... 462 bytes (99 words) - 21:20, 3 November 2023 |
Shoeless Joe Jackson (category Chicago White Sox players) often remembered for his association with the Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World... 34 KB (3,923 words) - 16:40, 14 April 2024 |
course of time. The White Sox were dealt a severe blow in 1919 by the Black Sox scandal, when Comiskey suspended the seven alleged conspirators still on the... 10 KB (1,235 words) - 06:24, 10 February 2024 |
Joseph J. Sullivan (category Sportspeople involved in betting scandals) gambler from Boston, Massachusetts who helped to initiate the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Sullivan was a known gambler in the Boston area who reportedly bet... 7 KB (780 words) - 15:54, 18 January 2024 |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis (section Black Sox scandal) remembered for his resolution of the Black Sox Scandal, in which he expelled eight members of the Chicago White Sox from organized baseball for conspiring... 88 KB (12,273 words) - 04:14, 25 April 2024 |
game, until the 1920s when the Black Sox Scandal and the resultant merciless crackdown largely put an end to it. The scandal involved eight players and all... 17 KB (2,474 words) - 14:06, 7 December 2023 |
taken money from gamblers in return for throwing the series. The "Black Sox Scandal" had permanent ramifications for baseball, including the establishment... 13 KB (790 words) - 15:30, 11 November 2023 |
Boston Hotel Buckminster (section Black Sox Scandal) Sox. There they conspired to fix the 1919 World Series, which was to take place thirteen days later, for personal gain. When the "Black Sox Scandal"... 9 KB (1,060 words) - 16:58, 27 September 2023 |
Hugh Fullerton (section Black Sox Scandal) America. He is best remembered for his role in uncovering the 1919 "Black Sox" Scandal. Studs Terkel played Fullerton in the 1988 film Eight Men Out. Fullerton... 8 KB (754 words) - 10:44, 27 February 2023 |
Swede Risberg (category Chicago White Sox players) played for the Chicago White Sox from 1917 to 1920 and is best known for his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Charles Risberg was born and... 7 KB (791 words) - 05:17, 8 November 2023 |
World Series (section 1919 Black Sox Scandal) September 1920. The "Black Sox" were eventually acquitted in a criminal conspiracy trial. Meanwhile, to deal with the fallout from the scandal baseball owners... 84 KB (9,619 words) - 03:43, 20 April 2024 |
Eight Men Out (category Chicago White Sox) dramatization of Major League Baseball's Black Sox Scandal, in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the... 20 KB (2,462 words) - 20:22, 31 March 2024 |
Chick Gandil (category Chicago White Sox players) and Chicago White Sox of the American League. He is best known as the ringleader of the players involved in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Described by his... 17 KB (2,304 words) - 04:51, 1 December 2023 |
Eddie Cicotte (category Boston Red Sox players) White Sox. He was one of eight players permanently ineligible for professional baseball for his alleged participation in the Black Sox scandal in the... 9 KB (986 words) - 01:27, 1 December 2023 |
Buck Weaver (category Chicago White Sox players) players banned from the Major Leagues for his connection to the 1919 Black Sox Scandal. Weaver was born in Pottstown, Pennsylvania, to Daniel Weaver and... 9 KB (1,013 words) - 04:51, 9 September 2023 |
famous book was Eight Men Out, a nonfiction reconstruction of the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Asinof was born into a Jewish family in Manhattan and lived in and... 7 KB (716 words) - 06:14, 21 June 2023 |
Hal Chase (category Chicago White Sox players) played. He was also indicted as an early conspirator in the 1919 Black Sox scandal but was acquitted. He was informally banned from the majors late in... 24 KB (2,656 words) - 11:49, 8 September 2023 |
League President, and one team owner as president. In the wake of the Black Sox scandal, the credibility of baseball had been tarnished with the public and... 25 KB (1,744 words) - 15:40, 22 April 2024 |
Abe Attell (section Black Sox Scandal) gangster Arnold Rothstein, Attell was charged with game fixing in the Black Sox Scandal in 1919, but the charges were dismissed before trial. He also was... 72 KB (1,407 words) - 02:29, 9 March 2024 |
Charles Comiskey (category Chicago White Sox executives) reputation was permanently tarnished by his team's involvement in the Black Sox Scandal, although he was inducted as an executive into the Baseball Hall of... 16 KB (1,420 words) - 22:58, 14 February 2024 |
players. 2023 Brazilian football match-fixing scandal Age fraud in association football Black Sox Scandal (1919) Pete Rose gambling on baseball – Dowd... 48 KB (5,716 words) - 07:28, 24 April 2024 |
Workshop, and decided to incorporate the stories he told about the Black Sox Scandal, imagining if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back to the same city Kinsella... 7 KB (801 words) - 21:40, 5 May 2023 |
Bill Burns (baseball) (category Chicago White Sox players) involvement in the alleged fixing of the 1919 World Series, dubbed the Black Sox Scandal. Burns played in the minor leagues from 1906 to 1907. In 1907, he... 7 KB (599 words) - 01:19, 8 April 2024 |
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 not win another... 39 KB (1,623 words) - 06:14, 3 October 2023 |
for the infamous Black Sox Scandal, on October 1 and ended with Game 8 on October 9. The Cincinnati Reds defeated the Chicago White Sox, five games to three... 24 KB (1,592 words) - 03:10, 19 April 2024 |