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Black Sox scandal
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The mian man behind it
The man behind the fix was first basemen Chick Gandil. He had a friend that was a proffesional gambler and convinced him to fix the World series. -
Reasons ofthe fix.
The main reason of the fix was because the player were being paid vary poorly and the men were payed low becasue there owner Charles Cominsky would not pay the players fairly. The men blew the series because they all had families and need the money to pay for their cost of living. -
Money.
The 8 players for throwing the world serise were going to be paid 100,000 dollars and were going to split the money with each ohter giving each man 12,500 dollars each. -
The end of the world series
October 9th was the end of the world series and the outcome was the Chicago White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds. -
Getting caught.
After the 1919 World series was over. People later found out that someone had fixed the game and 8 players from the white sox team were held accountable to fixing the game. -
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Joe Jackson was one of the 8 players that was banned from major league baseabll. Jackson loved the game of baseball and had above average state for baseball and was considdered one of the best players of his time. after being banned people thought they had seen Joe Jackson playing in the minnor leagues for his love of baseball -
The Trail
The grand jury handed down its decision on October 22, 1920, and eight players and five gamblers were implicated. And the eight players were banned from major league baseball. Shoeless Joe Jackson ,pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams; infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg; and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. and were later called the Black Sox for fixing the 1919 world series.
