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Todd (nolemmings)I am not by any means an expert about the goings on in baseball during the first quarter of last century, so I'd like to know about these incidents concerning Cobb and Speaker. Please provide some sources.
From what I have read, the incident concerning Cobb, Speaker and Wood arose out of a game played in September, 1919, on which Dutch Leonard claimed the others had wagered. The players were cleared when Leonard, who apparently waited until November,1926 to come forward, refused to provide testimony. If true, then consider the following:
1. The game was played before the Black Sox scandal.
2. The game was played before Landis was even commissioner, and before his pronouncements on gambling were instituted.
3. The allegations were made in late 1926, when Cobb was 40 and Speaker 38, each with only two years of playing left. What particular star power did they wield then, particuarly when Ruth and the Yankee juggernaut were the talk of baseball?
So, for gambling events that took place after 1919, what players/managers/oweners went unpunished?