September 28, 1920 – A dark day in baseball, but also one that started to cleanse. Eight Chicago White Sox baseball players were indicted by a grand jury. The charge against them was fixing the 1919 World Series otherwise known as the infamous “Black Sox scandal.”
They will be acquitted by a jury in August, but Commissioner Landis will ban the Black Sox for life. The eight men involved were Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, Fred McMullen, Eddie Cicotte, Claude “Lefty” Williams, Buck Weaver, “Happy” Felsch, and Shoeless Joe Jackson.
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