As a response to the Black Sox scandal that saw members of the White Sox throw the World Series in 1919, baseball owners ...
The allegations were so shocking that the whole ordeal became known as the Black Sox Scandal. Though the evidence was damning, the jury found them not guilty. But the scandal had jeopardized ...
Shooting through the air in a metal tube can be mind-numbing. Thankfully, there are many ways to stay entertained on long ...
This documentary looks at the 1919 affair involving the Chicago White Sox baseball team who agreed to lose matches in return for payments from big-time gamblers Joseph 'Sport' Sullivan and Arnold ...
Baseball fans who loved Peter Edward Rose bid farewell in a Sunday memorial on the field at Great American Ball Park in ...
Almost a year later in what is dubbed the Black Sox Scandal, eight White Sox players, including “Shoeless Joe” Jackson, are accused of conspiring with gamblers to lose on purpose. The eight ...
Mike McFeely is a columnist for The Forum of Fargo-Moorhead. He began working for The Forum in the 1980s while he was a ...
THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO, a single sentence from baseball commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti still reverberates: "The matter of Mr. Rose is now closed." Those words, which cemented Pete Rose's lifetime ...
In Game 7, the score was tied, 2-2, in the sixth inning when Mickey Mantle homered off Dodgers starter Joe Black for what proved ... After the White Sox won in a rout in Game 1, the Dodgers ...