The Black Sox's team of 1919, is going to be remembered as the most infamous baseball team of the century, if not of all time. They will never be remembered as the great ball club that they were, with a talented player at every position. A few would have surely been enshrined in Cooperstown. However, because of this scandal they were all banished from the game they loved, and the only thing that they knew. The Sox-Reds World Series not only led to the downfall of 8 men, but the mighty White Sox.

The city of Chicago was of whirlwind of joy and excitement when their Sox returned from an East Coast trip. During their trip, the Sox clinched the American League pennant and were headed to the World Series. All Season long, the Sox swept through competition, and nothing less was expected in the Series. To the people of Chicago, the White Sox were a joyous relief from the turbulent times of the past few years. World War I was concluding, and Wilson was lobbying for his League of Nations. Nothing though, came before the Sox though. The Sox were front-page news, and Wilson and the rest of the nation's problems took a back seat to them. However, their joy was going to be short lived.

Eddie Cicotte arrived at the stadium in Cincinnati to jeers from the Reds hometown fans. While he warmed up, Rothstein was arriving at the Ansonia Hotel, where a play by play action of the Series was going to be sent via telegraph. Rothstein only planned to stay for the first inning, because he had given Cicotte instructions to hit the first Reds batter. If he did, the deal was on. In the bottom of the first, the Sox went down 1,2,3. Buck Weaver hit a shot to center that looked like it was going to fall for extra bases, but the centerfielder made a fine diving catch. Weaver loved the game, and though he participated in the early meetings, he just couldn't go through with it when he put on his spikes. Cicotte came to the mound for the bottom of the first. He threw the first ball for a strike, but on his second pitch, he nailed Rath (the Cincinnati batter) right between his shoulder blades. Rothstein walked out of the Ansonia when this happed, and headed to another gambling club and slapped another $10,000 on the Reds. By the fourth inning, the score was knotted up at 1-1. Then the Reds began to tee off on Cicotte. The score increased to 6-1 before Gleason finally pulled his ace. The Sox couldn't muster any kind of offense the rest of the game, and it ended a 9-1 spanking in favor of Cincy. Abe Atell's room after the game was a filled with cash, sixteen grand of which was his. Atell wasn't ready to hand over any of the money to Burns or Maharg when they met, saying that all the money was out on bets.

Sport Sullivan wasn't though only one with ideas on fixing the series. Bill Burns coincidentally happened to be in New York at the same time the Sox were there. It was no mistake that he ran into Cicotte, after he started hearing some rumors. Burns began pumping Cicotte for info, but Cicotte laughed it of at first. In time, Cicotte admitted there was a plan; all that mattered was getting the money to finance the fix. Burns called in Billy Maharg, an ex-fighter from Philly, to be his associate. The three met with Chick Gandil the next day, and Gandil laid it out to them. For them to throw the series, they would have to come up with $100,000. Like Sullivan, Burns had to search for the money. Maharg did give them some advice to see the no. 1 gambler in America, Arnold Rothstein.

They day after the Series, the players removed their stuff from the lockers at Comiskey Park. Then Sullivan got the forty grand from the safe, and went to Gandil's room. The Swede walked out of the room with ten grand more for himself (15 grand total) and five grand for his friend, the utility infielder Fred McMullin. Weaver was never paid a cent. In total, Gandil had received eighty grand from Sullivan and Attell. He had distributed forty-five grand, and kept thirty-five grand for himself.

Early the next morning, Gandil and Williams went to meet Attel who again gave no more to anybody, instead placing it out on bets. Burns had to act as the mediator, and told Williams he would have to make it a lot less conspicuous than Cicotte did in game 1. Williams brushed it off, promising them he could handle himself. Eight Hundred less fans showed up for game two on October 2. The crowd was less boisterous than the day before, and the Cincinnati players themselves were shocked by their win. Williams set down the side in the first three in, while the Sox left a couple men on base. In the bottom of the fourth, Williams walked three batters and let in three runs. The Sox finished the game, out hitting Cincinnati 10 to 4, and scoring two in the seventh, but the game ended a 4-2 victory for Cincy. Schalk met Gleason in his dressing room after the game. Schalck told Gleason that in the fourth Williams wouldn't throw him the curve. Schalk demanded action, he couldn't take this crap anymore. Schalk showered quickly, and waited for Williams. When Williams came out, Schalk called out for him. Then he grabbed Williams, brought hi

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