The 1919 Black Sox Scandal

[Colts And Orioles]

Originally Posted by JAFF

I understand. But if you give a cheater an out, others see a way around the rules.

They hold back players like Gil Hodges, who played the game right, and was a great teacher of the game

o


If you read anything that I wrote, you would see that Joe Jackson and Buck Weaver were not cheaters (particularly Jackson, who did everything that he could to report the fix to the team owner, and tried to give the unsolicited $5,000 that he received to them.)

On the other hand, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker WERE both documented cheaters whom were involved in fixed games that same season, yet they were both inducted in the Hall-of-Fame.

o