Seeds of a scandal
Newly found letter at Hall sheds light on Black Sox's motives
Saturday, Oct 22, 2005
Craig Muder
Observer-Dispatch
COOPERSTOWN -- Newly discovered papers at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown shed light on the motivation for what might have been the most unforgiven act in baseball history: the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
The eight Chicago White Sox who conspired to throw that year's World Series have long been banned from organized baseball and the Hall of Fame. But evidence of their financial desperation has been hiding in boxes stored in the Hall's library for more than 40 years.
Team members complained in a letter they were not given their money for winning the 1917 World Series.
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Newly found letter at Hall sheds light on Black Sox's motives
Saturday, Oct 22, 2005
Craig Muder
Observer-Dispatch
COOPERSTOWN -- Newly discovered papers at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown shed light on the motivation for what might have been the most unforgiven act in baseball history: the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
The eight Chicago White Sox who conspired to throw that year's World Series have long been banned from organized baseball and the Hall of Fame. But evidence of their financial desperation has been hiding in boxes stored in the Hall's library for more than 40 years.
Team members complained in a letter they were not given their money for winning the 1917 World Series.
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