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Black Sox scandal, episode in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox, the American League champions, were banned from baseball in 1921 for having conspired with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The best-known of the "Black Sox" was Shoeless Joe Jackson Jackson, Shoeless Joe (Joseph Jefferson Jackson), 1887–1951, American baseball player, b. Brandon Mills, S.C. Holder of the third highest (.356) career batting average in major league history, Jackson was banned from baseball in 1921 for his part in the 1919
..... Click the link for more information. . Because of the scandal, baseball club owners appointed Judge Kenesaw M. Landis Landis, Kenesaw Mountain (kĕn`əsô'), 1866–1944, American jurist and commissioner of baseball (1921–44), b.
..... Click the link for more information. as commissioner of baseball to clean up the sport. The immense, rising popularity of Babe Ruth Ruth, Babe (George Herman Ruth), 1895–1948, American baseball player, considered by many the greatest of all baseball players, b. Baltimore.

Early Life

When he was seven years old his parents placed him in St.
..... Click the link for more information. is thought to have counteracted the damage done to professional baseball by the Black Sox.

Black Sox scandal

U.S. baseball scandal, centring on the charge that eight members of the Chicago White Sox had been bribed to lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Five of those accused admitted to a grand jury that they had thrown the series, but their signed confessions later disappeared. Although all eight players were acquitted in 1921, commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banned them from playing for life.

Black Sox Scandal

star white Sox players sold out to gamblers (1919). [Am. Sports: Turkin, 478]

See : Bribery

Black Sox Scandal

Chicago White Sox baseball players accused of taking bribes to lose the 1919 World Series. [Sports: EB, II: 66]

See : Scandal

Bachin not only looks at the role of baseball in American culture, but explores such issues as the 1919 Black Sox scandal to show how "sites of commercial leisure like Comiskey Park became arenas for negotiating the meanings of Americanism, civic culture, labor, and leisure.

Building the South Side: Urban Space and Civic Culture in Chicago, ... by Hoffman, Steven J. / Journal of Social History

Just as Babe Ruth's home run exploits reinvigorated the game in the wake of the Black Sox scandal some 50 years earlier, night baseball signaled a new era for the game in the 1930s and the end of World War II ushered in a new period of prosperity, a dramatic 1975 World Series gave the game a kick start at a time when it most needed it.

Five game-changers baseball by Simpson, Allan / Coach and Athletic Director

11 Shoeless -- Jackson was ruined by the 1919 Black Sox scandal.