"The Black Sox: My Side of the Story." EBSCOHost. Sports Illustrated, 16 Nov. 2015. Web. 4 Nov. 2005. Eight Men out.
The bottom of the Cincinnati order was teeing off on the Sox's ace. The game ended with the Redlegs winning 9 to 1. Meeting later that night with Charles Comiskey, Sox manager Kid Gleason was asked whether he thought his team was throwing the Series. Gleason hesitated, then said he thought something was wrong, but didn't know for
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).
This is when most people began to catch on that something was wrong, the Black Sox were not playing like they did in the regular season. Any other year the World Series would have ended here but because of the postwar interest, the commissioner decided to extend it to the best of 9 games. Games 6 and 7 were won by Chicago however with scores of 5-4 and 4-1. Up until game 8 no one had hit a homerun in any game from either team. In game 8, while fighting to “stay in the game” Joe Jackson homered in the third inning making the score 5-1.
Here Cicotte, a pitcher for the White Sox, is talking to William Burns, a pitcher from the rival team that wanted to get in on the money action. I think that if the White Sox players that were in on the fix just kept it to themselves and didn’t go around asking for help they could have gotten away with it.
Cicotte was the only one that had been paid by the gamblers, which resulted him making error after error losing the game (Elish, 2007). Fans kept getting more and more suspicious about the World Series. Cicotte's arm was getting tired before the fourth game, but it really was just his hurt heart. Losing the game for the White Sox the ending score was 2-0 (Geostch,
Cicotte was once again pitching in game 4 and he did not want to look as bad as he did in the first game. The first few innings him and the opposing pitcher Jimmy Ring matched zeros. With only one out in the 5th, Cicotte fielded a soft ground ball and made a horrible throw to first base and the runner advanced to third. The next man up had a base hit to centerfield and Cicotte cut the ball off instead of it going straight to home and let the runner score. The Reds won the game 2-0 and lead the series 3 games to 1.
The first guy came up to the plate. I could not be happier. The first pitch was a strike. Then the 2nd pitch was a strike and the batter swung and missed. The last pitch came and struck the first batter out.
All of the fans knew this. Red Sox fans watched anxiously as the fourth game of the ALCS began. Yankees fans watched confidently. They also knew that anything could happen. People wanted to watch a good series.
One run scores. Here comes Berkman. Freese has tied it, 7-7. Unbelievable.” Just two innings later, “Freese hits it in the air to center.
Game 7 was an intense match with neither starting pitcher making it out of the third inning and both teams combining to use eight relievers. While on the offensive, the Astros were led to victory by George Springer, the team’s center fielder, who home runned for the fourth consecutive game (tying Reggie Jackson and Chase Utley for the most home runs in a single World Series with five). The man of the hour, Correa, contributed greatly to the championship race, having hit two home runs over the course of the World Series, but it was his antics on the field after the game that really made headlines.
I learned about baseball as I sat between my great-grandfather and grandfather during holidays and summer picnics. If we were in the park, my uncles and cousins picked an area for the ball field. If we were at the farm, an empty pasture would suffice. As I grew, I became the runner for the older uncles, who weren’t fast anymore. Thus, I learned to play baseball under the guidance of my uncles and cousins.
As he saw the dark sky right above the trees in center field as the moon glimmered down on the field he felt as nervous as a cat that hears a mouse in the wall. The roaring of the crowd was in the air like a pack of howling wolves everyone excited to see what Aaron would do in his last at bat of the year. Finally, the first pitch simmers past him as the umpire screeched “Strike one”! The pitches then went by and they were all balls. By now the count was 3-1 against Aaron and he knew if the pitcher wanted to have a chance at getting him out.
Everyone 's at least broken a bone or injured themselves before right? Well this is one of those tragic stories where I unfortunately injured myself. It all started way back in the 5th grade and all my friends and family know I love & play the game of baseball. The baseball season for the little league I play for is about to begin in about 1-2 weeks.
For a young baseball player one of the highest goals to achieve is hitting a homerun -for me that was all I wanted. I already achieved most of what I wanted in baseball, and one of my proudest was a no-hitter, but it was no home run. When I first realized how bad I wanted this feat was one night after a practice where all we did was just hit. The majority of my teammates hit at least one homerun that practice, but me I hit the fence but never was able to send one over. The car ride home after the practice was horrible, I was a mess.
