COMISKEY SUSPENDS PLAYERS AFTER INDICTMENT IN 'BLACK SOX' SCANDAL*
Chicago, Illinois (JFK+50) On September 28, 1920, Chicago White Sox owner Charles Comiskey** suspended seven of his baseball players after they were indicted in a conspiracy to throw the 1919 World Series in return for financial gain.
Eight players were actually indicted, but one had quit the team before the start of the 1920 baseball season.
Two of the White Sox players, Eddie Cicotte and Joe Jackson admitted that they had accepted bribes from the agent of a gambling syndicate.
*The Black Sox Scandal involved 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players accepting bribes to throw the 1919 World Series. Although all were acquitted at trial in 1921, Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis permanently barred them from baseball.
**Charles Albert Comiskey (1859-1931) was born in Chicago & attended St. Mary's College in Kansas. He began his baseball career as a pitcher for the St. Louis Brown Stockings & managed beginning in 1883 & ending in 1892. CAC posted a 839-542 record as manager. He was admitted to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1939.
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