Each October, the baseball season concludes with the sport’s most prestigious event — the World Series. The 1919 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and Chicago White Sox was fixed, the outcome arranged to benefit gamblers who hovered over the sport like vultures. This was, after all, the World Series, the crown jewel of their sport. The Sox folded and the Reds were World Series champions, if somewhat tainted. The fix remained baseball’s dirty little secret until the following August when a grand jury, investigating rumours of another fixed game, stumbled on to the World Series story.

Source: thestar October 24, 2017 20:37 UTC