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Posted By: Dan Bretta

Gil, I completely agree with you, and as I said earlier "Swede was a hard guy". Baseball players were a rough crowd in the deadball era and gambling on games by players was not uncommon for the era. Unfortunately for Weaver he sat in on at least one meeting about the throwing of the series...probably by happenstance because he was friends with most of those who participated in the scheme, and that's what I mean by being in the wrong place at the wrong time. Landis was brought in to clean up the game and Weaver and arguably Jackson were thrown to the lions without due process. It is lamentable, but in the end it certainly kept most ballplayers from associating with the gamblers.