There was no Social Security. You were just gone. You were in Pawtucket playing minor league ball the next week. So everybody else was just trying to make what they could when they could. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted for throwing the 1919 World Series to Cincinnati.
Most people believe the confession was stolen.
Though they didn't serve jail time, the eight players were suspended from the game for life. Cartoonist AL CAPP was born on this day in 1909, New Haven, Connecticut, creator in 1934 of the comic strip, Li'l Abner. His best-known play was Street Scene , set outside a New York tenement building. All of England's literature, legal, and government documents for the next few centuries were either in French or Latin. The Germans had captured the Soviet city of Kiev in mid-September.