I’ll take it with a grain of salt. But since it happened at least once back then, it certainly could have happened twice. I doubt it, but it certainly could be true. This is interesting and well worth the read. Thanks for posting!

History is repeating itself!!!

Eddie Cicotte said in a deposition that “he’d heard talk” of a 1918 fix is hardly any real evidence. None of this is really new.

Having said that, that was one incredibly corrupt era and the Cubs were hardly immune. Is it possible they were in the tank? Yes. I believe that there is some evidence the Cubs threw some regular season games between 1914 and 1919. But this isn’t evidence one way or the other of a World Series fix at all.

But all speculation. The only thing for certain is that the players of that era were treated like slaves..

And God knows what was going on in the 1880s.

I have no problems believing that the Black Sox were essentially the McGwire/Sosa of fixing. Others did it, but that was the one people really cared about.

Landis was an unrepentant racist and from all accounts, loved the sound of his own voice and thought he was God himself in the courtroom. BUT… I will give the man credit for coming down so hard on the Black Sox that it completely changed baseball’s culture.

It probably happened all the time back then. And most of those guys probably kept their mouths shut.

Too many people were involved with the Black Sox scandal. It was doomed from the start.

There’s a possibility it could have only been 93 years without a WS rather than 103.

If they started using Wrigley (Weeghman) Field for the Cubs in 1916 why didn’t they use it for this series? That website that Mak19 gave about the Original Curse said they played at Comiskey.

I had a feeling when I was watching that it didn’t look right!!!!