Charles Comiskey: The Black Sox Scandal

Dean Smith, author of “The Black Sox Scandal”, highlights the biggest scandal in the baseball world. Smith introduces his article with Jim Crusinberry, a sports journalist, who arrived at the Sinton Hotel, Cincinnati for the World Series on September 30, 1919. Smith writes how Crusinberry noticed Abe Attell, former world featherweight boxing champion, screaming his throat out with a handful of money and offering to bet on Cincinnati Reds to beat the Chicago White Sox in the opening match. This behavior of Attell was twitching for Crusinberry, as to why he was betting against the greatest and finest team, Chicago White Sox, in the free-wheeling days of Americans gamblers.

In 1900, Barney Dreyfuss became owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates and symbolized the era of the family business in white baseball. Local players like Honus Wagner from Carneigie Pennsylvania played for the Pirates during the early years of Dreyfuss’s ownership. Wagner, a German immigrant, was not only a great baseball player but he came to symbolize the local immigrant class from Pittsburgh (Lecture 9-24-15). In 1903, players like Honus Wagner appeared in the first World Series game that was held in Pittsburgh. The World Series created through the joint partnership of the American and National League to dismantle other baseball leagues by forming the MLB. The MLB throughout the early 20th century worked to vanquish other leagues and smashed efforts of players to unionize all as ways to maximize profits from baseball (Raceball, 26-27).

Robinson has been one of the most influential people throughout history, Jackie has had a huge impact on today's world because of the numerous ideas and actions he has done.

The people who were against segregation and promoted civil rights helped to accomplish what we call today, an integrated society. During the Civil Rights Revolution, there were many prominent figures such as Jackie Robinson, the first major league baseball player who influenced the court’s decision to integrate society. Not only did Jackie Robinson play major league baseball, but he also ran track, played basketball and football. He played these college sports at UCLA, USC and Pasadena Junior College, which are predominately white colleges.

A person that never goes to school is like a dropout, because dropouts don’t go to school you would think that it would be hard later on in life to get a job raise a family and do good in life. Shoeless Joe Jackson was famous because he played professional baseball player. Shoeless Joe Jackson was a great baseball and a great person based on what I read he was always helpful even when he didn’t have to he wanted to.

Jackie Robinson is known to be one of the most influential people in baseball and in society. He eternally changed the aspect of American history. It was unusual to have a colored person be treated equally as a white person during the time of the 1900s. He was born in Cairo, Georgia in 1919 and later moved to Pasadena, California to pursue a better life. He came from a poor family of sharecroppers in the South and was the youngest of five. Robinson’s older brother Matthew Robinson was the person who inspired Jackie to pursue his talents and love for sports. Matthew won a silver medal in the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games just behind Jesse Owens. Jackie did it all, he excelled in all types of sports it came natural to him. He attended Pasadena Junior College then later continued his education at UCLA where he became the first athlete to win varsity letters in four sports: basketball, football, track, and baseball.

All people love money, and winning a huge game is always awesome; but, what would you chose as an athlete when a big game comes? Always keep in mind, you should make the right decision or you might be hated forever by most. Now which do you choose, money or fame? Imagine this; you are playing on the best team in the American League and you are the favorite for the World Series and much more fame is about to head your way, but would you throw all of that away for money and being banned from your favorite sport for life. Decide quickly, your life as a respected human, player, spirit, and an idol to others is on the line waiting for you to choose. The Chicago Black Sox should not have been paid to lose the 1919 World Series.

Eight baseball players made a decision that ruined their lives. Eddie Cicotte, Claude Williams, Arnold Gandil, Charles Risberg, George Weaver, Joe Jackson, Oscar Felsch, and Fred McMullin called home after an evening of confessing. Did confessing lead to more years of imprisonment and fines or did it bring nothing to their plate to overcome. Black Sox baseball scandal is a malicious disaster for the teammates involved because of all the cheating during the game, how the gambling went down, and all the investigating.

Did you know The Black Sox Scandal can easily be called one of the most notorious scandals of early baseball history? The Scandal of the “Black Sox” was mostly a rumor back in the 1919’s, and sort of still is today. The fact that anyone would purposely “throw” any ball game is unthinkable and unimaginable. The scandal happened almost 100 years ago! There were eight members of the team involved in the so-called scandal.

Christian Von Der Ahe helped create the team that is today the St Louis Cardinals. As a German immigrant, he flipped the script on baseball up to that time period by bringing it to the working class people of the United States. His contributions to baseball include that his league was the first to start playing Sunday games. Which was previously not allowed in AG Spalding’s National League. Von Der Ahe also was the first person to promote alcohol sales at baseball games and changed the game into a commercial enterprise. In 1881 Von Der Ahe went toe to toe with the National League, with his creation of the American Baseball Association.

The next season we made it all the way to the world series but we had lost against the Texas Rangers. The following year after that we had won the World Series against the Giants. The year after that he had won the Series again the Red Sox and they had steal believed that they steal had a curse for trading

The year is 1919, shock runs through the streets as the Cincinnati Reds have just beat the

According to Anderson, William. B’s article “Saving the National Pastime's Image: Crisis Management during the 1919 Black Sox Scandal” wrote about how the Major League Baseball managed the Black Sox Scandal, and the creation of the first media office in the professional industry. Even thought the MLB already hired media specialists, they could not manage the Black Sox Scandal. After the foundation of the commissioner system, the commissioner talked what happened in the MLB, so it made the press office.

It has been 26 years since Major League Baseball banned Pete Rose from the sport for life. In February of 1989, Rose was questioned by then retiring commissioner Peter Ueberroth amid gambling rumors against baseball’s all-time hit king. Rose denied the allegations, but on April 1, 1989, the IRS seized betting slips with Rose’s name, writing and finger prints on them. MLB announced it would launch a full investigation, which resulted in a 225-page report from investigator John Dowd known as the “Dowd Report”. The report, which was the equivalent of a baseball death sentence, outlined Rose’s gambling activities in full detail. Dowd’s report was given to new commissioner Bart Giamatti, who handed down a lifetime ban to Rose on Aug. 24,1989.

The Chicago Cubs incredible 2014/15 season came to a disappointing end Wednesday night. Chicago was swept by the New York Mets, eliminating them from the NLCS. Although it was a tough way to end such a great season, it still gives a lot for Cubs fans to look back on and celebrate.