Sunday, September 27, 2009

Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox Scandal


September 27, 1920
An article appearing in the Philadelphia North American quotes local gambler Bill Maharg saying he and former major league pitcher Billy Burns offered eight White Sox players $100,000 to throw the 1919 World Series. The team will become infamously known as the Black Sox.

September 27, 1920
At Chicago’s Comiskey Park, 33-year old Joe Jackson’s sixth inning double of Tiger hurler George Haus breaks a scoreless tie putting the White Sox ahead, 2-0. ‘Shoeless’ Joe’s game-winning hit will be his last of his 13-year career as players put on the grand jury list are indefinitely suspended for the rest of the season as the probe of the 1919 World Series fix is investigated.

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