The Cincinnati Reds win the World Series after eight members of the Chicago White Sox conspired to intentionally lose the games in what has become known as the Black Sox Scandal.
The conspiracy was the brainchild of White Sox first baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil, who persuaded Joseph “Sport” Sullivan, a friend and professional gambler, that the fix could be pulled off. New York gangster Arnold Rothstein supplied the money.
Gandil enlisted several of his teammates, motivated by a dislike of notoriously stingy club owner Charles Comiskey, to implement the fix.
All of them were members of a faction on the team that resented the better-educated Sox players. The two factions almost never spoke to each other on, or off, the field.
Despite being acquitted of criminal charges, the players, including the legendary “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, were banned from professional baseball for life.
