RichardSimon
05-15-2011, 09:23 AM
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/15/sports/baseball/a-year-before-the-black-sox-whiff-of-scandal-wafts-over-1918-world-series.html?_r=1&ref=sports
Hankphenom
05-15-2011, 10:27 AM
Joe Wood tells Larry Ritter on the Glory of Their Times tapes that the White Sox tanked the 1920 pennant because of their fear that the scandal brewing toward the end of that season about the previous year's world series would explode if they were in another one. Also that he, Cobb, Speaker, and Dutch Leonard bet on a 1919 game between their two teams, a story that broke wide open in 1926 and famously caused Cobb and Speaker to leave their teams. Gambling on baseball by players was widespread in those days, had been for years, and the only question is how many games were actually influenced by the actions of players who had money riding on them.