Chicago Black Sox Scandal Essay

In all of history, only very few pastimes have been able to capture the attention of many Americans. And that is the sport of baseball, as it has been able to keep its appeal to Americans from the merger of the National League (NL) and American League (AL), creating the Major League Baseball (MLB) in 1903 up until recently with the Texas Rangers winning their first ever World Series. Baseball has been considered the pastime for as long as anyone can remember, and this is due to the major developments from the early 1900s up until the early 1960s. Through the Chicago Black Sox Scandal, farm systems, and breaking racial barriers, baseball was able to develop into the game it is today. The Chicago Black Sox scandal was a huge scandal that allegedly

However, with many key players such as Eddie Cicotte and Joe Jackson throwing the game with many questionable plays, winning the series was out of the question. Many viewers had believed that there was no way in which the Chicago White Sox would lose as with the prediction of Hugh Fullerton (a knowledgeable sports prognosticator) they were to win 5-3, however, Fullerton “and his fellow scribes heard rumors that the series was fixed” (Nathan 16). This then caused Fullerton to look over every questionable play and from then he had gathered that the series was rigged and that the game had been set since game 1, however when he tried to publish the article no publisher was willing to publish it as it was seen as too risky and would tarnish the publisher. This was until December 15th when the article had finally been published and the title read “Is Big League Baseball Being Run for Gamblers, with the Players in the Deal?” (Nathan 18). Soon Eddie Cicotte and Joe Jackson were asked to testify before the Cook County Grand Jury and Jackson and Cicotte both admitted to receiving money during the trial with Jackson claiming that he did accept the money but did not throw the