1919 World Series Baseball Facts

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Baseball. America’s pastime. Worldwide sport. The best sport in America. But, in 1919 the industry of baseball was affected terribly. The 1919 World Series ( the World Series being one of the biggest events in America) was one of the darkest events in sports history. Arnold Rothstein, a notorious gambler in New York, created one of the biggest scandals in sports at the time. He rigged the 1919 World Series. At this time, no one would even think of pulling off such a huge scandal. But he successfully pulled off the scandal without a trace. After a few years the players (from the White Sox) couldn’t deal with the suffering. They decided to come clean and tell the authorities about it. Later Rothstein was killed and went down in history by making the 1919 World Series one of the most controversial events in baseball history. Meaning it was

controversial is because how they pulled it off and nobody knew and how long it took the MLB

to find out was amazing. Also how the players played it off like they were actually doing poorly in the games was amazing as well. If the players never confessed about the scandal, the MLB might have never found out.

Before the 1919 World Series took place, America was at war with Germany and Russia to end empires in those countries. During this time in the early 1900s, baseball interest was at an all time low. The 1919 World Series was actually one of the first major sporting events after WW I. During the early 1900s, the Chicago White Sox were one of the most dominant teams in baseball. Chicago fans knew it because they had most of the same players from the 1917 roster so they knew that the Sox we...

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...in any sport ever. People say that the 1919 World Series was the sports crime of the 20th century. The White Sox were getting hammered by press trying to get information on why they threw the World Series. They made it in the playoffs that year but since the players started to confess they were disqualified from the playoffs. Most people couldn’t believe that they threw the World Series. Not even the commissioner of baseball, John Heydler, could believe that such corrupt action was taking place when he didn’t even know it. “ But the scandal was a betrayal of more than a set of baseball games, even more than of the sport itself. It was a crushing blow at American pride.” (Asinof 197). When the players went to court to get questioned they all denied the allegations of fixing the 1919 World Series. Shortly they got away with it but it was shortly lived for the players.

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