You’ve probably heard of the Chicago Black Sox scandal, but don’t know what it’s about. In the 1919 World Series eight players took money from gamblers to fix the Series so that the Cincinnati Reds would win. That act would start the controversy of baseball’s now shaky reputation, the end of “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s should-be hall of fame career and the “most famous scandal in baseball history (History Files – Chicago Black …showed first 75 words of 570 total…

…showed last 75 words of 570 total…the Sox ended up losing 9-1. Either way, all players received equal punishment. This is absolutely the “most incredible and darkest event in sports history (Lowitt, Bruce, St. Petersburg Times, p. 1).” No fixing of games of such lofty status has ever been heard of before. It is something that baseball tries to forget back will always be in the back of its mind. What a tragedy to fix the uppermost stage in America’s pastime.