Gambling on the 1917 White Sox-Giants World Series

May 19, 2011 by Arne Christensen · Leave a Comment

The recent New York Times article about speculation that the Cubs threw the 1918 World Series to the Red Sox brings up the broader issue of how deeply major league baseball was corrupted by gambling and a money culture in the 1910s. A while ago I looked up how the Chicago Tribune covered the end […]

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