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  ESPN Classic - SportsCenter Flashback:
The Chicago Black Sox banned from baseball
Amid rumors that the World Series is fixed, the Chicago White Sox lose the eighth and deciding game to Cincinnati, 10-5, on the 48-year anniversary of Mrs.
Chicago starter Lefty Williams was 23-11 during the season but had lost his first two Series starts.
Last night, several hundred spectators in a Chicago courtroom boomed "Hooray for the clean Sox!" when seven former White Sox players and two gamblers were acquitted by a jury on charges that they conspired to defraud the public through the throwing of the 1919 World Series.
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 1959 White Sox | Chapter 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Chicago White Sox were going to open the 1959 season, and after all, I knew with unwavering certainty that I truly was smarter than a sack full of hammers.
The White Sox scored all of their runs in the fourth inning with the key blows being Wynn's two run double and Jim Rivera's sacrifice fly that scored the deciding run.
The start of the 1959 season for Chicago was in sharp contrast to their start in 1958 when the club was effectively (if not mathematically) eliminated from the pennant race during the first two months of the season.
www.1959whitesox.com /excerpt.htm   (7591 words)

  
 Chicago White Sox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
In 1943 the Brooklyn Dodgers defeated the White Sox, 7-5.
In 1970 the White Sox were defeated by the Montreal Expos, 10-6.
In 2002 the White Sox were defeated by the Colorado Rockies, 18-10.
www.baseballhalloffame.org /teams/AL/whitesox.htm   (709 words)

  
 ► Chicago White Sox Discount Sports Tickets
In 1993 The Chicago White Sox won the west Division and led the newly formed central division in 1994.
In the same year it is renamed as White Sox and in the next year the team has became a charter member of the American League.Chicago won four AL pennants and two World Series titles from 1901 through 1919.
Chicago posted three consecutive second-place finishes from 1963 through 1965 but never topped the AL again until 1983, when the White Sox assembled their best team since the Black Sox scandal.The White Sox lost to the Baltimore Orioles in the American League Championship Series.
www.sportsticketsource.com /ChicagoWhiteSox   (392 words)

  
 1919 World Series Summary
The Chicago White Sox of the World War I period were one of the most popular teams in the major leagues.
The 1919 World Series was played between the Chicago White Sox of the American League and the Cincinnati Reds of the National League.
Having clinched the American League pennant, the Chicago White Sox were installed as the bookmaker's favorites to defeat the Cincinnati Reds in the Series.
www.bookrags.com /1919_World_Series   (3698 words)

  
 Chicago Black Sox
The White Sox owner paid two of his greatest stars (outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and third baseman Buck Weaver) only $6000 a year, despite the fact that players on other teams with half their talent were getting $10,000 or more (can you imagine that happening these days??).
The financial problems and general unhappiness of the White Sox players was persuasion enough to convince eight members of the team to enter into a conspiracy that would change the game of baseball forever and be remembered as the greatest scandal in the history of professional sports.
In July, Sox manager Kid Gleason’s suspicions of a fix were confirmed by a friend “on the inside.” Gleason went to the press with the story, but was unable to convince anyone (because of fear of libel suits) to print it.
virtualchicagoland.com /c/details.php?id=1003   (2447 words)

  
 Historic Baseball : The Chicago White Sox cast shadow over the game in 1919
The contest between the favored White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds drew the largest series attendance to date.
Underneath all of this success was an effort by some members of the Chicago White Sox team to throw the World Series in exchange for $100,000 from gambling interests.
Kerr was the highlight of the White Sox pitching staff, finishing with a 2-0 record and a 1.42 earned run average.
www.historicbaseball.com /teams/1919whitesox.html   (507 words)

  
 Chicago White Sox Tickets - Cheap White Sox Tickets - MLB Tickets
The White Sox returned to prominence when they beat the Indians in 1959, for their first AL Championship in 40 years.
The White Sox failed to make the playoffs for the fourth consecutive year this past year, however there were many positive signs for the future.
The Chicago White Sox secondary ticket market is an open market where White Sox ticket prices are determined by supply and demand.
www.vividseats.com /mlb/chicago-white-sox-tickets.html   (820 words)

  
 chicago White Box
The Chicago White Sox is a professional baseball team founded in 1893 as the Sioux City, Iowa franchise in the minor Western League.
The eight White Sox players were expelled from the professional baseball including Cicotte and Jackson for fixing the World Series.
The Chicago White Sox steered in a new era with the procurement of Ozzie Guillén, who known for his passion and high spirits.
www.geocities.com /whitesox1232002   (695 words)

  
 White Sox : Chicago White Sox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
After acquiring "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in 1915 from Cleveland, Chicago went on a tear, winning at least 88 games in five of the next six years, as well as winning a World Series in 1917 and an AL pennant in 1919.
The Sox have yet to live that down, but they have provided for their fans brief periods of excitement.
In 1983, the White Sox won the AL West by dominating the season in a fashion that can only be described as "Winning Ugly." After moving from Comiskey Park to New Comiskey Park in 1991 (now named U.S. Cellular Field), the Sox enjoyed a renaissance, winning division titles in 1993 and 2000.
www.showkets.com /mlb/whitesox.php   (660 words)

  
 chicago white sox
The league was known as St. Paul from 1895-1899 before shifting to Chicago and adopting the moniker White Stockings aka White Sox.
From 1952 to 1958 Chicago White Sox stood among the top three teams in the AL but could not compete with the East Coast team, New York Yankees.
In 2004, the Chicago White Sox hired former White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillén.
www.geocities.com /whitesox123c   (555 words)

  
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Taking the mound for the White Sox in the opener will be Jon Garland, who will go for an MLB-best 16th victory of the season.
The Chicago Tribune's Dave Van Dyck reports Chicago White Sox OF Scott Podsednik is on pace to steal more than 80 bases, which would break Rudy Law's 1983 record of 77.
The White Sox had one of the better pitching staffs in the AL.
www.lycos.com /info/chicago-white-sox.html   (485 words)

  
 All-Baseball.com, part of MVN: History Class: 1919 Chicago White Sox and the "Dead Ball Era"   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago American League baseball club, was a notorious cheapskate and at one point in the mid 1910’s, he decided that the players should have to pay 25 cents each to have their own uniforms washed.
I was hoping that once the White Sox won the World Series, they would finally get the respect that they deserve, and that the 2005 team would be remembered as a great team that rose to the occasion and came through when it counted, doing what only a few teams before them had ever done.
The 1919 Sox were a solid team, a very good team, and were a kind of dynasty between 1917-1920, not counting the war year of 1918.
www.all-baseball.com /archives/021860.html   (4885 words)

  
 Essay 1   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The team came to be known throughout the United States as the Chicago Black Sox, after an incident in which eight members of the team were brought to trial and later banned from baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series.
During the 1919 World Series, a sports writer by the name of Fullerton heard rumors about a possible fix involving the White Sox and decided to mark in his scorecard any plays that seemed odd or out of place.
Comisky says, “any bet against my Sox this series is a sucker bet, but of course I am not a gambling man.” The cloaked reference to gambling focuses the audience’s attention to the issue of whether the players were gambling.
home.earthlink.net /~texdrake/essay2.htm   (1038 words)

  
 1919 Chicago White Sox | BaseballLibrary.com
Future White Sox Al Zarilla is born in Los Angeles, CA.
Future White Sox Orval Grove is born in Mineral, KS.
Future White Sox Bob Gillespie is born in Columbus, OH.
www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/teams/1919whitesox.stm   (108 words)

  
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After the 1919 season, Boston owner Harry Frazee sold Ruth to the Yankees for $100,000 and a $300,000 mortgage on Fenway park...
In 1919 the Chicago White Sox were the hottest thing in baseball.
As it turned out, Chicago's poorly paid players (Owner Charles Commiskey was one of the stingiest men in baseball) were easy pickings for the gamblers who had offered the eight teammates $100,000 (but were actually only paid $10,000) to loose the series.
www.mrbaseball.com /1919.php   (375 words)

  
 History Files - Chicago Black Sox
The White Sox team was formed in 1900 as a franchise of the American league, under the ownership of Charles Comiskey.
Comiskey, a former first baseman, is also credited with being the first person to train his players to adjust their field positions according to a batter's hitting habits.
In 1917, the Sox won the World Series and, managed by William "Kid" Gleason, the 1919 Chicago White Sox had the best record in the American League.
www.chicagohs.org /history/blacksox/blk1.html   (287 words)

  
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After winning the American League Pennant, the Chicago White Sox were rewarded with the bonus of Chicago’s cheapest champagne.
Members of the White Sox team became frustrated with the misleading actions of their owner.
Chicago White Sox 1934 jacket / kelly green wool / scarlet C with “Sox” inside of it on left chest
www.mitchellandness.com /detail.aspx?ID=1763   (338 words)

  
 cbs2chicago.com - Rare Tabloid Covering 1919 White Sox Missing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
Librarians discovered that two bound volumes of Collyer's Eye from the 1920s were missing this fall, around the time the White Sox won their first World Series in 88 years, said associate university librarian Karen Schmidt.
"As there was more and more interest in what the White Sox were doing, we began receiving more questions about their history," Schmidt said.
Collyer's Eye was a weekly sports and gambling tabloid credited with revealing the so-called Black Sox scandal, when eight White Sox players were charged with throwing the 1919 World Series.
cbs2chicago.com /topstories/local_story_340081255.html   (288 words)

  
 Sports: Black Sox scandal: Chicago throws 1919 World Series
There was good reason the Sox were susceptible to the lure of quick money.
In September 1920, a Cook County grand jury in Chicago was looking into reports that the Cubs had thrown a three-game series to the Phillies that year.
The investigation spread to the 1919 White Sox.
www.sptimes.com /News/122299/Sports/Black_Sox_scandal__Ch.shtml   (892 words)

  
 Superhero Historians
He turned the White Sox into a powerhouse, winning the World Series in 1917 and having the best record in the American League in 1919.
It is also rumored that the term “Black Sox” came into being because Comiskey charged the players to clean their uniforms.
The White Sox were split into two teams, one underpaid while the other, able to negotiate higher salaries, were well paid.
superherohistorians.com /index.php/P45   (3130 words)

  
 Eastland Memorial Society - The Black Sox Scandal of 1919
The trial following the Black Sox Scandal is indicative of the back room deals, evidence tampering, and political maneuvering which perennially plagued the legal and enforcement branches of government in the greater Chicago area.
From the years 1917-1919 the Chicago White Sox were the dominant team in baseball, and might well have gone on to become one of the greatest in history.
In fact, the Sox originally received their nickname the "Black Sox" not because of the scandal, but because of the dirtiness of their uniforms.
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 White Sox Tickets - Chicago White Sox Tickets at StubHub!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
The Chicago White Sox are one of the most unique teams in all of baseball.
Playing in the new US Cellular Field, formerly known as Commiskey Park, Chicago White Sox tickets will be extremely difficult to locate, and many games at US Cellular Field will be sold out well ahead of the first pitch.
The White Sox finally broke through with a World Series championship in 2005, after nearly a century of suffering for their longstanding and loyal fans.
www.stubhub.com /chicago-white-sox-tickets   (1951 words)

  
 History Files - Chicago Black Sox
The 1919 World Series resulted in the most famous scandal in baseball history.
Eight players from the Chicago White Sox (later nicknamed the Black Sox) were accused of throwing the series against the Cincinnati Reds.
Details of the scandal and the extent to which each man was involved have always been unclear.
www.chicagohs.org /history/blacksox.html   (148 words)

  
 1919 Chicago White Sox Statistics and Roster - Baseball-Reference.com
1919 Chicago White Sox Statistics and Roster - Baseball-Reference.com
The Black Sox: Eddie Cicotte, Joe Jackson, Hap Felsh, Swede Risberg, Chick Gandil, Lefty Williams, Fred McMullin and Buck Weaver...If you haven't already, make sure to read Eight Men Out.
Franchise Index: 1919 Stats (1918/1920) / Schedule / Transactions
www.baseball-reference.com /teams/CHW/1919.shtml   (246 words)

  
 1919 Black Sox   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
lthough the 1919 Chicago White Sox ballclub worked well together on the playing field, the team was bitterly divided into two distinct factions.
The second half of the team was paid far less and was also less educated.
Team captain Eddie Collins summarized the chemistry of the 1919 White Sox team this way: "I thought you couldn't win without teamwork, until I joined the White Sox.
www.1919blacksox.com /whitesox.htm   (176 words)

  
 1920 World Series
It paired the Cleveland Indians and the Brooklyn Dodgers in a series that followed the scandal plagued events of 1919.
The Chicago White Sox led the American League for most of the 1920 season, falling behind when eight players were banned from the game by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for their transgressions in 1919.
Among these was the immortal "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, who was traded to the Sox by the Indians several years earlier.
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 Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the White Sox for Throwing the 1919 World Series
Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the White Sox for Throwing the 1919 World Series
This fast-paced series is a mix of documentary storytelling and the entertaining elements that make countdown shows fun to watch.
The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the 1919 Chicago White Sox for "Throwing" the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds:
www.davidpietrusza.com /Top-5-Reasons-Black-Sox-1919-World-Series.html   (137 words)

  
 1910-1919
Much like the actual series, the Indians suffered from a lack of clutch hitting and lost in seven games after having won the first three games.
Chief Bender wins 5 games in their wins and Babe Ruth emerges as a star for the Red Sox.
However it’s all over shadowed by the scandal of the 1919 “Black Sox” as 8 players including Shoeless Joe Jackson were charged with conspiring to fix the World Series that year and all denied entrance into the Hall of Fame.
playbaseballclassics.com /html/1910-1919.html   (187 words)

  
 Field of Dreams (1989)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12)
He believes that the simple words mean he is to build a baseball diamond in his field, and he sets out to do just that, and he indeed does one heck of a job.
After at least half a year passes, following endless strains on their patience, who should show up in the field but Shoeless Joe Jackson, the famous alleged criminal from the 1919 Black Sox Scandal who was dismissed from the game of baseball forever, until now...
After all that is said and done, the film takes a back road and curves it into this storyline brilliantly.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0097351   (1105 words)

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