Research Paper On The Black Sox Scandal

The Black Sox Scandal Baseball is America’s favorite pastime. People have always thought baseball was a clean game. Until the massive doping scandal that occurred several years ago. However, there was what some called the “greatest scandal in sports history” back in the 1919 World Series (1919 Chicago White Sox). The scandal all started as a way for the underpaid players to get some extra money. Specifically Eddie Cicotte and “Chick” Gandil needed money to support their family. Somehow the whole team got involved in one of the most controversial scandals in all of sports. Despite the proof some players indicted have tried to clear their names to get into the hall, but everyone who tried was unsuccessful. These players set a precedent that

This rule has left some of the great players out of the hall of fame which has created some great debates amongst the sports writer. The eight players that were banned were: “Eddie Cicotte, Oscar Felsch, Arnold Gandrill, Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Charles Risberg, George Weaver, and Claude Williams” (Guide to the Black Sox…). Some of these players have tried to reinstate them to baseball but all attempts have failed. This ruling has become a precedent for all of baseball that no one in the locker room should bet on baseball, or suffer the

Also they analysts say Pete Rose deserves to get in and lift his ban for life. Never though do they say the Black Sox players should get into the hall. However, it was once not always this way players use to advocate for them and there is other proof that one player did not play to lose the series. Joe Jackson said he played his “heart out against Cincinnati” (Shoeless Joe…). He batted a .356 batting average and did not make any errors in the outfield. This shows how much he wanted to win the series. He said that “I was innocent” so why should he be left out of major league baseball forever (Shoeless Joe…). Many great players such as Ty Cobb and Ted Williams came to the defense of two players in general “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and George Weaver. Ty Cobb said that “…they’ll never get me to believe Buck Weaver was was guilty of anything” (1919 Chicago White Sox). These players were some of the greatest players to play the game and still they were not influential enough to convince baseball to overturn the ruling of the commissioner of baseball. These events are similar to the recent events. Such as when Ken Griffey Jr. said that Barry Bonds deserves to be in the hall of fame. The players are in the hall as a team but not individually they are in there as the team that “threw” the World Series. Not exactly what baseball players want