In 1919, the Scandal shook the American game. Eight Chicago White Sox members were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series. This betting conspiracy between a group of players and gamblers led to a permanent ban on eight White Sox baseball players, to the introduction of a commissioner's position and strict gambling laws that continue to this day. After careless mistakes and hits that aroused widespread suspicion that the series has been fixed, Chuck Gandil, Claude "Lefty" Williams, Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Buck Weaver, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullin and the largest baseball star in the Midwest, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson was tried in court. Although the courts found them innocent, the newly appointed Commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, …show more content…
It became more and more embedded in the popular lexicon of America. "Home Run" meant success. If the idea "came out of the left field", he appeared out of nowhere. If he was "out of the base", he was incorrect. Baseball has become America's game. Baseball is "a clean, simple game that calls to everyone who likes clean, simple athletics," said President William Howard Taft in 1910. But when the First World War colored the innocence of America, the scandal with Black Sox destroyed the innocence of American entertainment. The scandal, however, was not unpredictable, given the tense relationship between many owners who pinched money and their player. Throwing games was not uncommon, because poorly paid players tried to make as much money as possible. Nevertheless, news that the World Series has left injured scars on the face of Baseball. F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote in The Great Gatsby that Arnold Rothstein, the gambler who fixed the amendment, was condemned to "the faith of fifty million people". Sportswriter Hugh Fullerton proposed in The New York World that the World Series will never be played again if the owners wanted to keep the sanctity of the