Although the 1919 Black Sox scandal has been portrayed as a unique event, baseball history indicates that throwing games likely happened a lot more than once. In the 1919 scandal, eight members of the ...
Pete Rose, one of baseball’s greatest baseball players who was banned from the sport for life in 1989, will finally be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame after a ruling handed down Tuesday by the ...
Eight of the Chicago White Sox team of 1919 were punished On the night before the opening game of baseball's 1919 World Series, 46-year-old sportswriter Hugh Fullerton was worried. He suspected the ...
For nearly a century, millions of words poured from the confines of the Tribune Tower in stories about crooked politicians, murderous lovers, civic giants, sports heroes, regular folks and big shots, ...
In a house in Scottsdale, Ariz., folded and sitting atop a mass of other papers inside a storage bin, is an obscure slice of baseball’s most infamous scandal. Calling it a slice actually is generous.
Pitcher Trevor Bauer provided a thorough analysis of his views on the Houston Astros' sign-stealing issue in an essay that was published in The Players' Tribune in 2020. Bauer, a steadfast opponent of ...
With the Chicago White Sox setting a record in futility last year — 121 losses in one season — drastic action is being taken to help reverse the team's fortunes. It all centers around the discovery of ...
Jack Roosevelt "Jackie" Robinson, who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947, was born to a sharecropping family in Cairo, Georgia, on this day in history, Jan. 31, 1919. His fight for racial ...
On the night before the opening game of baseball's 1919 World Series, 46-year-old sportswriter Hugh Fullerton was worried. He suspected the series was going to be rigged. The Cincinnati Reds were ...