Chicago White Sox Scandal

The 1919 Chicago White Sox had Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, superb pitchers. And slick-fielding Chick Gandil at first base and workhorse Buck Weaver at third. And outfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson. The White Sox were, to put it simply, the best team money could buy. And it got bought. Led by Gandil, who rounded up Cicotte, Williams, Weaver, Jackson, shortstop Swede Risberg, outfielder Oscar Happy Felsch and utility player Fred McMullin, Chicago threw the 1919 World Series …showed first 75 words of 917 total…

…showed last 75 words of 917 total…Joe," well, it ain't so. "Charley Owens of the Chicago Daily News was responsible for that, but there wasn't a bit of truth in it," Jackson said years later. "It was supposed to have happened the day I was arrested in September of 1920, when I came out of the courtroom. There weren't any words passed between anybody except me and a deputy sheriff. ... Nobody else said anything to me. It just didn't happen, that's all."