in 1916 a independent Negro League team from Baltimore was known as the Black Sox.
In 1919, the Chicago White Sox, who were heavily favored to win the World Series that year, surprisingly lost to the Cincinnati Reds. The following year, it was discovered that 8 members of the White Sox had worked with gamblers and planned to throw the series. The 8 players were actually acquitted of their charges in a court of law. However, Those 8 players, Eddie Cicotte, Oscar Felsch, Chick Gandil, Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Charles Risberg, George Weaver, and Claude Williams were banned from Major League Baseball for life due to the speculation of their involvement. So, because of the scandal, people nick-named the 1919 White Sox the 'Black Sox'.
Although many believe the Black Sox name to be related to the dark and corrupt nature of the conspiracy, the term "Black Sox" may already have existed before the alleged fix. There is a story that the name "Black Sox" derived from parsimonious owner Charles Comiskey's refusal to pay for the players' uniforms to be laundered, instead insisting that the players themselves pay for the cleaning. As the story goes, the players refused and subsequent games saw the White Sox play in progressively filthier uniforms as dust, sweat and grime collected on the white, woolen uniforms until they took on a much darker shade. It was this treatment of the players by Comiskey that helped fuel the Scandal.
yeah, in crazytown. loljk. no there is no Baseball team named the black sox.
however there is the red sox and the white sox.
No. There is, however, a baseball team called the Chicago White Sox; maybe that's what you mean.
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the team was the white sox (who are still a team) but people called them the black sox
There is and never was a formation of a Major League Baseball team called the "Black Sox". The "Black Sox" is just a disparaging nick-name that was given to the Chicago White Sox after supposedly "throwing" (losing purposely) the 1919 World Series. It is Known as the Black Sox scandal.
The black sox was the 1908 white sox. the were called "black" because they fixed the world series
Not sure if the Red Sox ever had a regular all black outfield. Their first black regular outfielder was Willie Tasby, who joined the team during the 1960 season. For several seasons, Reggie Smith and Tommy Harper both started together in the OF for the BoSox, but were not joined by another black regular in the OF.
No. What are you blind? It's the New York Yankees.
The Boston Red Sox used to be called the Boston Braves.
The Cincinnati Reds beat the Chicago "Black Sox" in the 1919 World Series
The Red Sox were called the Americans to differentiate them from their National League Boston team called the Nationals.
they are from baltimore and they were a nergro baseball leauge i hate u