Thursday Feb 20, 2025
Ep. 1: The Greatest Myth in Baseball History
The 1919 Black Sox World Series fix and the 1921 trial are fascinating for not only what we know, but for what we are still discovering a hundred years later. From myths about motivations to cheat, to misperceptions of the some of the greatest ballplayers of all time, this story has it all. In this episode, with the help of some experts, I debunk some of the biggest myths and shed light on what was really happening in 1919, and the years leading up to a scandal that rocked the nation
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Sox players may have perceived they were poorly paid since, as Hornbaker has written, salaries ”were rarely given out and hardly ever correct.” SCANDAL ON THE SOUTH SIDE contains many quotes indicating the Sox felt mistreated including Felsch expressing contempt for the penny-pinching Comiskey. Murphy believed ”Comiskey underpaid his players and was rotten to them”. Noyes described Comiskey as a skinflint. Risberg complained of ”starvation wages”. The Sox threatened to strike in ’19.
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