Also a counter to that is this...Comiskey and the Sox management basically knew about the fix as it was happening if not heard the rumors before the World Series and told a member of the National Commission in John Heydler...and what did they do to the suspected players? Nothing.
Comiskey also spent a lot of money hiring private investigators to look into several of the suspected players (Jackson was not one of them by the way) in the off season and what did he do? Tried to trade a few including Felsch and then signed every single one back save for Gandil who didnt want to come back. And I believe every one of them got a raise in salary as well.
The most blatant and obvious game fixing scandal didnt result in suspected players being "quietly let go" or washed out and Comiskey had the opportunity to do that with I think all of them as their contracts were up. This was what was typical of how owners and MLB handled these things prior to Landis. The idea that the players thought there was no real consequences for fixing games is a major reason why they did it and cant be irrelevant in trying to understand the Black Sox scandal.
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