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Black Sox Scandal: Eight White Sox Players Indicted, September 28, 1920
Original: "Eight Players On White Sox Team Indicted Today" September 28, 1920 # OTD # BlackSox # Baseball
On this day in 1920, a grand jury indicted eight Chicago White Sox players for allegedly conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. The scheme, which became known as the Black Sox Scandal, rocked baseball and led to the players being banned from the sport for life. It remains one of the most infamous episodes in American sports history.
Why now: It is the anniversary of the historic indictments that became baseball's most notorious scandal.
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