The so called black sox scandal involved the Chicago White Sox, American League champions in 1919. Several Chicago players supposedly took bribes to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. All the players involved were banned for life by Baseball commissioner Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis.
Black Sox Scandal happened in 1919.
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The 1919 World Series.
The black sox scandal and throwing the 1919 World Series.
The Cincinnati Reds-
Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds. This was the game where multiple players on the White Sox took money to purposely loose the world series. Also known as the "Black Sox Scandal"
Chicago White Sox (Black Sox Scandal)
ESPN SportsCentury - 1999 Flashback The 1919 Black Sox Scandal was released on: USA: 31 July 2001
He was involved in a betting scandal which tried to get him and other players to lose the World Series on purpose. this became known as "the Black Sox"
Because the owner of the White Sox in 1919, Charles Commiskey, made the players pay for their own laundry, so to protest, they didn't was their clothes, and when they went out to play, their clothes were so dirty that even their socks were black. They were called the black sox before the scandal.
Jackson played for the Philadelphia Athletics (1908-9), Cleveland Naps (1910-15), and Chicago White Sox (1915-20). He retired after the Chicago "Black Sox" scandal of 1920.
In 1919 the White Sox betted on the World Series, betting that they would lose. So they threw the games