The Black Sox Scandal: Chicago throws the 1919 World Series
You’ve probably heard of the Chicago Black Sox scandal, but don’t know what it’s about. In the 1919 World Series eight players took money from gamblers to fix the Series so that the Cincinnati Reds would win. That act would start the controversy of baseball’s now shaky reputation, the end of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s should-be hall of fame career and the “most famous scandal in baseball history (History Files – Chicago Black Sox, p.1).”Baseball was struggling for survival in the pre-Babe Ruth era. Players were promised bonuses but mostly were left with empty wallets (Such is NOT the case today). Baseball needed some new type of flair that would attract America to it, despite it’s bad reputation at the time. World War I was already making all the headlines, but the last thing baseball needed was something like this. Once
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Approximate Word count = 557
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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