The first game had Eddie Cicotte as the starting pitcher, which is the player that throws the ball to the people who are batting, for the Chicago White Sox. It seemed like the Sox would win that day because, as previously mention, Eddie Cicotte had won 29 games prior to the playoffs. However, the Reds ended up winning the first game of the series with a score of 9 to 1. Everyone was shocked about how badly the White Sox had played that day. Cicotte’s level of play was not what it usually was. A statement was written by the New York Times: “Never before in the history of America’s biggest baseball spectacle has a pennant-winning club received such a disastrous drubbing in an opening game…” (Andrews, 2014) The losing would continue throughout
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An investigation by a grand jury into a game with the Chicago Cubs, a major league baseball team also located in Chicago, Illinois, and the Philadelphia Phillies, a major league baseball team located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led to a look into the 1919 World Series. People were called in to testify. and players from the White Sox would confess to having knowledge of and being involved in the scandal of the 1919 World Series.
The eight White Sox players to have been involved in the scandal were sent to court. However, the prosecution suffered from severe problem with its case against the eight men, a documented confession from Claude “Lefty” Williams and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson went missing. Also, there was no other significant evidence to find them guilty. In the end, the verdict was not guilty and the eight men got off free. One of the quotes from the eight men, Buck Weaver, had him stating after the trial: "Everybody knew I had nothing to do with the conspiracy." (Mitchell, 2015)
The trial and the scandal had a negative impact on both the players and baseball, itself. This scandal has been embedded in history due to the consequences from this event. There were two major negative impacts caused by this …show more content…
However, they never played on another professional baseball team. All of the players did ultimately end up living normal lives after being banned.
The second negative impact was the effect it had on the image of baseball. Because of the scandal, baseball lost its credibility.
People could not trust baseball to be clean anymore. “Is Big League Baseball Being Run for Gamblers, With Players in the Deal?” was a news article written by a sports writer, Hugh Fullerton, back when everyone was trying to figure out whether or not, there was a scandal. The title of this article was on everyone’s mind during this period. The situation between baseball and the people of America during this time was like a relationship between a couple after finding out one of them was cheating on the other. Trust was lost between people and
An investigation by a grand jury into a game with the Chicago Cubs, a major league baseball team also located in Chicago, Illinois, and the Philadelphia Phillies, a major league baseball team located in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, led to a look into the 1919 World Series. People were called in to testify. and players from the White Sox would confess to having knowledge of and being involved in the scandal of the 1919 World Series.
The eight White Sox players to have been involved in the scandal were sent to court. However, the prosecution suffered from severe problem with its case against the eight men, a documented confession from Claude “Lefty” Williams and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson went missing. Also, there was no other significant evidence to find them guilty. In the end, the verdict was not guilty and the eight men got off free. One of the quotes from the eight men, Buck Weaver, had him stating after the trial: "Everybody knew I had nothing to do with the conspiracy." (Mitchell, 2015)
The trial and the scandal had a negative impact on both the players and baseball, itself. This scandal has been embedded in history due to the consequences from this event. There were two major negative impacts caused by this …show more content…
However, they never played on another professional baseball team. All of the players did ultimately end up living normal lives after being banned.
The second negative impact was the effect it had on the image of baseball. Because of the scandal, baseball lost its credibility.
People could not trust baseball to be clean anymore. “Is Big League Baseball Being Run for Gamblers, With Players in the Deal?” was a news article written by a sports writer, Hugh Fullerton, back when everyone was trying to figure out whether or not, there was a scandal. The title of this article was on everyone’s mind during this period. The situation between baseball and the people of America during this time was like a relationship between a couple after finding out one of them was cheating on the other. Trust was lost between people and