Apparently you cannot see the forest for the trees. Do you not see the cards I posted showing that NO BETTING was prominently displayed? Players had been banned for gambling scandals so long it was not even much of an issue. A team physician was banned for bribing an umpire, i.e. fixing a game; a manager was informally banned (fired and blackballed) for trying to fix a batting title in favor of Lajoie. And yes I know Hal Chase and others lived on the edge and apparently never got caught or "convicted" of potential gambling ties but if you think that the players were unaware that they could not gamble or fix games you are clueless. Players could be banned for simply not honoring their contracts and could be jailed for fixing their games, yet you believe there was no “rule” against fixing the results?
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Now watch what you say, or they'll be calling you a radical, a liberal, oh, fanatical, criminal
Won't you sign up your name? We'd like to feel you're acceptable, respectable, presentable, a vegetable
If we are to have another contest in the near future of our national existence, I predict that the dividing line will not be Mason and Dixon's but between patriotism and intelligence on the one side, and superstition, ambition and ignorance on the other.- Ulysses S. Grant, 18th US President.
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