For nearly 90 years, the Black Sox scandal has been baseball’s darkest hour. Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven others on the 1919 Chicago White Sox were charged with conspiring to throw the World Series against Cincinnati. They later became known as the “Black Sox” and were banned from baseball for life by the game’s first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
Posted: December 13th, 2007.
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From gambling to drugs to ugly labor disputes, baseball’s history is dotted with dark days (AP)
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