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Ice Fishing, Christmas Trees, And Booze: One Spy's Failed Infiltration Of The Black SoxExcerpted from The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball, by Charles Fountain....

Rob Manfred Kicks Shoeless Joe Jackson Back Into The GraveThe appointment of a new MLB commissioner is always a good time for certain special interest groups—spitball enthusiasts, Montreal baseball fans, Pete Rose truthers—to begin seeking favors. “Maybe,” they think, “the new commissioner will be more reasonable than the last!” This is presumably why the ...

Watch Rare Footage Of The Black Sox Throwing The 1919 World SeriesWhat we have here is, to my knowledge, the best* surviving footage of the 1919 World Series. It's pretty amazing, not least because it allows you to watch the infamous Black Sox actually throwing a game....

The Truth According To Shoeless Joe

As told to Furman Bisher for Sport magazine back in 1949:...

A Conversation With Ron Rapoport

Best of Chicago: Westbrook Pegler on Babe Ruth's called shot | Wendell Smith on the White Sox in Jim Crow Florida | Bob Greene on a hockey "intellectual" | Skip Bayless on Harry Caray | John Schulian on the end of summer...

Auction House Offering $1 Million For Signed Black Sox Confessions

The sports auction house Leland's announced on Thursday that it was willing to pay $1 million for the signed confessions of the eight Chicago White Sox accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, which the heavily-favored Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds. The only problem is, they might not exist....

Kill The HOF Character Clause, For The Sake Of The Writers

Originally published in Bloomberg View....