Hump Guns Down Brain Over Stud Debt!by James McManus | Published: Nov 13, 2007 |
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In October 1919, eight members of the Chicago White Sox threw five games in the best-of-nine World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. The players implicated in the conspiracy – including Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson – were banned from baseball for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, though a movement is under way to have Jackson posthumously inducted into the Hall of Fame at Cooperstown.