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Levitt Throwbacks: Old-School Baseball Players in Today’s Game, by George Castle BURYING THE BLACK SOX How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded GENE CARNEY Copyright © 2006 by Gene Carney. Published in the United States by Potomac Books, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission from the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Carney, Gene, 1946- Burying the Black Sox: how baseball’s cover-up of the 1919 World Series fix almost succeeded / Gene Carney.— 1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 1-57488-072-9 (hardcover: alk. paper) 1. Baseball—Corrupt practices—United States—History. 2. World Series (Baseball) (1919) I. Title. 3. Chicago White Sox (Baseball team)—History GV875.C58C37 2006 796.357’64’0977311—dc22 2005017186 Printed in the United States of America on acid-free paper that meets the American National Standards Institute Z39-48 Standard. Potomac Books, Inc. 22841 Quicksilver Drive Dulles, Virginia 20166 First Edition 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 CONTENTS Acknowledgments The Roster Chronology of Key Events Preface 1 The Trial Nobody Noticed 2 The World Series of 1919 3 The Cover-Up 4 Shoeless Joe Jackson’s Role 5 It Comes Undone 6 Scandal, Trial, Consequences 7 Shoeless, Knuckles, and Lefty 8 The Other Ghosts of Summer 9 The Fixers 10 Down in History 11 Aftermath Epilog Appendix Notes Bibliography Index About the Author ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), especially its internet daily Digest (SABR-L), Lending Library, publications, regional meetings, free access to the Internet research tool ProQuest, and its incomparable network of baseball experts and friends. The National Baseball Library and Giamatti Research Center in Cooperstown, especially Gabriel Schechter, Tim Wiles, Claudette Burke, Jim Gates, Jeremy Jones, and Russell Wolinsky. The Utica Public Library staff, especially Bob Quist, Joan Pellikkan, and Barbara Brookes, for service above and beyond; and the Mid-York Library System. Thanks also to the public libraries of Saratoga, New York, St. Louis, Missouri, Brooklyn, New York, and Cleveland and Columbus, Ohio; the Ohio State and Notre Dame University libraries; and Dawes Memorial Library at Marietta College, Ohio. Special thanks to Tom Cannon, Bob Hoie, Eliot Asinof, Mike Nola, David Shiner, Rod Nelson, David Fletcher, and Bill Dunstone. Also Dick Adams, Nic Antoine, Steve Bennett, Charlie Bevis, Mark Braun, Tom Brenn, Bob Broeg, Robert Buege, Bill Burgess, J. Gayle Camarda, Chuck Carey, Ethan Casey, Tama Chute, Michelle Ciccarelli, Merritt Clifton, Scott Collard, William Cook, Warren Corbett, Kathy Dean, Bill Deane, Susan Dellinger, Nicole DiCicco, Rich Domencic, Jim Elfers, Eric Enders, Phil Erwin, David Fleitz, James Floto, Hugh Fullerton V, Steve Gietschier, Daniel Ginsburg, Kevin Grace, Donald Gropman, Daniel E. Harden, Elizabeth Harvey, Roland Hemond, Tim Herlich, William R. Herzog II, Bill Hickman, Stuart Hodesh, Jerome Holtzman, Richard Hunt, Cliff Kachline, Bud Kane, Francis Kinlaw, Kenneth Kinslow, Bill Kirwin, Steve Klein, Ted Knorr, Jeff Kutler, Sean Lahman, Stephanie Leathers, John Leise, Len Levin, Lloyd Lewis, Richard C. Lindberg, Douglas O. Linder, Hildy Linn, Norman Macht, Jim Mallinson, David Marasco, Arlene Marcley, Adrian Marcewicz, Lesley Martin, Neil Massa, Ken Matindale, Bob Mayer, Andy McCue, William “Biff” McGuire, Bill McMahon, Jeff McMahon, Barry Mednick, Stephen E. Milman, Mark Moore, T. Kent Morgan, Dave D. Mushenheim, Dave G. Mushenheim, Alan M. Nathan, Daniel A. Nathan, David Nevard, Tim Newman, Jim Nitz, Bill Nowlin, Steve Olsen, Royse Parr, Mark Peel, Hayford Peirce, Tom Perry, David Pietrusza, Rebecca Poe, Jacob Pomrenke, Steve Riess, Walter Reuther, Charles Rubin, George Rugg, Jeff Sachse, Eric Sallee, Jim Sandoval, Bill Savage, Dorothy Jane Mills, Lyle Spatz, Steve Steinberg, Patrick J. Stevens, Trey Strecker, Norm Stringer, Jerry Switzer, Bob Timmermann, Cindy Thomson, Rich Thurston, Erik Varon, Mike Veeck, David Q. Voigt, Walter Watts, Paul Wendt, Don Wigal, Gary Wilbur, Allan J. Wood, and John Zajc. THE ROSTER: WHO WAS WHO IN 1919 Can’t Tell the Players Without a Scorecard THE CHICAGO WHITE SOX 1B — C. Arnold “Chick” Gandil 2B — Eddie “Cocky” Collins 3B — George “Buck” Weaver SS — “Swede” Risberg IF — Fred McMullin LF — “Shoeless Joe” Jackson CF — Oscar “Happy Felsch RF — John “Shano” Collins RF — “Nemo” Leibold C — Ray “Cracker” Schalk P — Eddie “Knuckles” Cicotte P — Claude “Lefty” Williams P — Dickie Kerr MGR— William “Kid” Gleason OWNER — Charles A. Comiskey THE CINCINNATI REDS 1B — Jacob “Jake” Daubert 2B — Morris “Morrie” Rath 3B — Henry “Heinie” Groh SS — William “Larry” Kopf LF — Louis “Pat” Duncan CF — Edd “Eddie” Roush RF — Alfred “Greasy” Neale C — Ivey “Ivy” Wingo C — “Bedford Bill” Rariden P — Walter “Dutch” Reuther P — Horace “Hod” Eller P — Jimmy Ring P — Harry “Slim” Sallee MGR— Pat Moran OWNER — Garry Herrmann THE NATIONAL COMMISSION August “Garry” Herrmann, President Byron Bancroft “Ban” Johnson, American League John A. Heydler, National League POSSIBLE FIXERS Arnold “The Big Bankroll” Rothstein Abe “The Little Champ” Attell David Zelcer (“Bennett”) “Sleepy Bill” Burns Billy Maharg Nat Evans (“Brown”) Joseph J. “Sport” Sullivan Carl Zork KEY REPORTERS Hugh S. Fullerton Ring Lardner Frank G. Menke Irving Vaughan KEY JUDGES Charles A. McDonald (1920 Grand Jury) Hugo Friend (1921 Trial) John J. Gregory (1924 Milwaukee Trial) Kenesaw Mountain Landis KEY LAWYERS Gregory (1924 Milwaukee Trial) Kenesaw Mountain Landis KEY LAWYERS William “The Great Mouthpiece” Fallon Alfred Austrian (White Sox) Raymond Cannon
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