Betrayal
Subtitle: How the 1919 Black Sox Scandal Changed Baseball
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 320
ISBN-13: 9780199795130
Subjects: Chicago white sox (baseball team); World series (baseball); Sports, corrupt practices; Baseball, history
Description: In the most famous scandal of sports history, eight Chicago White Sox players--including Shoeless Joe Jackson--agreed to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for the promise of $20,000 each from gamblers reportedly working for New York mobster Arnold Rothstein. Heavily favored, Chicago lost the Series five games to three. Although rumors of a fix flew while the series was being played, they were largely disregarded by players and the public at large. It wasn't until a year later that a general investigation into baseball gambling reopened the case, and a nationwide scandal emerged.