Black Sox Scandal

The Most Infamous Baseball Scandals Ever

Posted 05.02.2012

Read More: Infamous Baseball Scandals, Pete Rose Lifetime Ban, Baseball Scandals, Leo Durocher, Pete Rose Banned, Marge Schott, Pete Rose, Mitchell Report, Major League Baseball, Cincinnati Reds, Steroids in Baseball, Black Sox Scandal, Slideexpand, Brooklyn Dodgers, Mlb Scandals, Sports News

The trial of former star pitcher Roger Clemens on charges that he lied to Congress when he denied taking steroids and human growth hormone is just the...

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How To Solve The Steroids/Hall Of Fame Dilemma

Av Sinensky | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mark McGwire, Baseball, Barry Bonds, Mlb, Roger Clemens, Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Baseball Hall of Fame, Black Sox Scandal, Alex Rodriguez, Cooperstown, Steroids in Sports, Sports News
Av Sinensky

Here is the answer: let them in. And not just the steroid guys. Rose, Shoeless Joe, all of them. Put them all in the Hall of Fame. Except, not really. Here's what I propose: a Hall of Fame purgatory.

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Baseball's Big Black Eye: Black Sox, Blackouts and the Banning of Buck Weaver

Devra Maza | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jerome Holtzman, Bud Selig, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Baseball Hall of Fame, Major League Baseball, Chicago White Sox, Buck Weaver, 1919 World Series, Black Sox Scandal, Barack Obama, Baseball, Entertainment News
Devra Maza

In the notorious Black Sox scandal of 1919, eight players were banned from baseball for life. George "Buck" Weaver never should have been one of them.

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Clearing 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson: Lawyers Say 'Eight Men Out' Full Of Fiction

Chicago Tribune | Erika Slife | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Sports, Chicago Sports, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Daniel Voelker, Black Sox Scandal, Eliot Asinof, Paul Duffy, Eight Men Out, Chicago News

Two Chicago attorneys have joined the ranks of those trying to clear "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's name....

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What Wonders He Has Seen

Roger I. Abrams | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: California Gold Rush, Wrigley Field, Peter Seitz, Arthur Gidden, Great Recession, Burleigh Grimes, Yankees, Boston Braves, Fenway Park, Black Sox Scandal, Red Sox, Ty Cobb, Commissioner Landis, Great Depression, Babe Ruth, Herbert Hoover, Entertainment News
Roger I. Abrams

On Saturday, April 24, we went to Fenway Park to see Arthur Giddon, the Red Sox honorary bat boy. Also scheduled was a match bet...

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