if you are a true baseball history buff as I am, you will find this interesting. It also helps give a nice little lesson to those lacking in said history. I am very interested in the 1919 Black Sox scandal and the resultant banning of players such as the immortal Shoeless Joe Jackson. I would love any comments about the Chicago Black Sox. Should Shoeless Joe be taken off the banned list? What about Buck Weaver? Anyone else from the team? Anyone know much about this?
http://sports.yahoo.com/mlb/news;_ylt=AkWB5B7CLAQU7NUy2fVaTfQRvLYF?slug=ap-whitesox-papers&prov=ap&type=lgns
2007-11-26 02:07:15 · 6 answers · asked by alomew_rocks 5 in Sports ➔ Baseball
yes - the 1919 Chicago White Sox are known as the Black Sox due to the scandal.
2007-11-26 02:18:09 · update #1
THese papers should be very interesting for everyone to see when they are finally auctioned off. I think that the current ban on these players should be maintained unitl there is proff that one of them did not have ANYTHING to do with it, I agree that Joe Jackson had a great series but he still took their money, Buck Weaver may have played his heart out but was an organizer and also took part in the planning...he shold stay out as well. You can not sacrifice the integrity of the game for a short term windfall. The same will come up with the Steroid era for the HOF; it will be harder for guys to get in and some have to clear their name before being enshrined.
2007-11-26 07:09:51 · answer #1 · answered by bdough15 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Black Sox scandal involving the White Sox in the 1919 world series came within an eye lash of ending baseball only to be saved several years later by Babe Ruth. As good a player as Jackson was there is no way he can ever go into the HOF and should continue to be banned forever as well as all others that were involved. If there is no integrity there is no game and gambling and/or throwing games is an automatic life time ban and that is the way it has to be. As much as I liked him as a player I would have to put Pete Rose in the same category as Jackson.
2007-11-26 10:25:51 · answer #2 · answered by Frizzer 7 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I'm not sure if they have or not. Didn't they make a movie about the Black Sox scandle. I bet that was historically accurate and may have more facts about it.
to Acer Black Sox was the nickname the White Sox got when they intentionally threw games in the series I believe it was and then were caught.
2007-11-26 10:20:18 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The eight were complicit in the fix of several games (knowledge is complicity even if actions are not aligned).
Bad decisions can have bad consequences.
2007-11-26 12:49:30 · answer #4 · answered by Chipmaker Authentic 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
watch 8 men out
2007-11-26 10:49:37 · answer #5 · answered by BRAVESFAN 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
black sox? do u meen white sox?
2007-11-26 10:13:24 · answer #6 · answered by Dobe777 2 · 0⤊ 11⤋