Informative Speech On The Black Sox Scandal

The Victory Season: The End of World War II and the Birth of Baseball’s Golden Age written by Robert Weintraub is focused on the 1946 Major League Baseball season after World War II when “America was ready to heal.” During the war, parks were empty, the balls were made with fake rubber, and all of America’s favorite players were serving in the war. When players returned, they exchanged their military uniforms for baseball uniforms and the sport of baseball quickly became a key tool which helped many American’s return to their normal, everyday lives. Parks began to fill up again and a new era of baseball was born. Although so many soldiers returning at once did cause some issues, the National League was very competitive and many thrived on it. Weintraub discusses many events considered to be baseball’s best times including: the difficult, yet rewarding transition of baseball players from military service to the major leagues, The Brooklyn Dodgers breaking the racial segregation in the league by signing a black man, Jackie Robinson, the introduction of the Mexican League, in which American players signed with to receive higher salaries, and the 1946 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the St. Louis Cardinals, where the Cardinals defeated the Sox in the seven game series. Weintraub strongly focuses

The causes of why the Chicago Cubs beat the Cleveland Indians was how the cubs got there. The Chicago Cubs had the best regular season record.They had some of the best players in the MLB. When they got to the playoffs they had some struggles along the road but at the end of it all they ended up in the world series after beating 3 teams in the playoffs.

The Sox had immediate success with players like Cy Young, Jimmy Collins, Tris Speaker, Smokey Joe Wood, and Babe Ruth throughout its early years. Boston won the first World Series in 1903 followed by championships in 1912, 1915, 1916, and 1918. One of the most well known baseball players in history, pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth was originally from the Red

The Chicago White Sox of 1919 were a clear favorite to win the World Series. They had all of the odds on their

The 1919 World Series was very interesting to say the least. Some of the White Sox players wanted some extra money. I believe that this series is one of, if not the darkest chapter in Major League Baseball’s history.

The teams that were in the 1919 world series were the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. The White Sox's were the favorite for the game but in the end the Reds had won the game 10-5. This was a major upset and before the first pitch there had been talk of a fixed game. The game was actually fixed so that the Reds would win the game. Gamblers had payed some of the White Sox players to lose the game. The people that had to gain from the White Sox's loss were the people that put bets on the Reds to win the game. The White Sox's were the favorite so they would have a lot of people betting on them to win and not many people would bet on the Reds to win. The White Sox’s that threw the game were called Black Sox’s. There were eight Sox’s that

In 1919, eight of the Chicago White Sox allegedly threw the World Series. Charles Comiskey was the ruthless owner of the White Sox and was the main motive of the sox to throw the series. Chick Gandil was the first player to get involved and then he spread it to the other players on the team. The act by these players would be called the Black Sox Scandal. The Scandal nearly ruined America’s pastime. The baseball commissioner, Judge Landis, banned all eight of the players for life. Based on how Joe Jackson played in the world series and how he was proven innocent in a court of law, he should be reinstated into baseball and be put in the hall of fame.

While the facts surrounding the throwing of the Series are confusing, people familiar with the case agree Gandil was the ringleader. A few weeks before the 1919 World Series, Gandil approached Sullivan about fixing the Series. He told Sullivan that for

“In 1944, the sport was segregated, and African- Americans and whites played in separate leagues” (“Robinson” 3). This quote shows blacks and whites did not get along. “ Rickey knew there would be difficult times ahead for the young athlete, and so made Robinson promise to not fight back” (“Robinson” 3). This quote shows that the General Manager of the Dodgers knew that there would be problems.“ On April 15, 1947 (Jackie Robinson Day) making history as the first black athlete to play Major League Baseball” (“Robinson” 3). This quote shows that Jackie made history in the game of baseball and changed the world. The next topic will be A Name for

For Chicago, baseball and the two teams are super important and each have their own die hard fans and will ride for their team even through all of their losses and wins because it's easy come easy go. The Cubs last won a world series in 1908 and the White Sox last won in 2005, so both teams know what the world series is and how to get there. The difference is that the Cubs

No sports scandal has similarly shocked America or had such a lasting impact on its culture. The Black Sox players were suspected of throwing the World Series, and underwent trails. On August 2, 1921, the Black Sox were found guilty on all accounts. The final verdict was that all eight players to be permanently banned from organized baseball. The Black Sox players should not be banned from baseball for life. Although the players threw the World Series and had a huge negative impact on the fans and the game, they should not be banned for life because, they were only in it for the money, not all of the players that were banned were involved, and they tried to call off the fix.

With all of the negative energy that surrounded the Cubs, its fans that reside on the north side, stayed true to the team even though the rest of the country would consider the Chicago Cubs misfits who couldn't even beat a High School baseball team. Now the Cubs are one of the most dangerous teams playing in professional Baseball, and the White Sox's can't get into the playoffs even if they brought tickets to the game.

In 2004 the Boston Red Sox won the World Series for the first time in 86 years. The Chicago Cubs won the World Series in 2016 to end a 108 year championship drought. What do they have in common? The teams both had a success in the early 20th century, but both blundered for extensive amounts of time before winning another world championship. Both had to overcome a huge deficit to complete their championship winning seasons. Both teams were coming off a successful season the year before, and had big offseason acquisitions to strengthen their team as well mid- season acquisitions. The two also had playoff heroes that dazzled the audience on their paths to victory. The two teams are very much in common, but they are also different teams in

As a little background on Rickey, some say he was baseball’s first scientist. He had a reputation for intelligent design. He devised new and effective ways to instruct players and sharpen their skills; invented training devices, like base-sliding pits and batting tees that are commonplace today but were unheard of then; and pioneered the use of complex statistical measures to evaluate performance. He created what came to be known as the farm system, a network of minor-league teams under the control of the major-league team, where young players could be placed, taught, developed, and evaluated, eventually providing a “harvest” of fresh talent for the parent club (Glasser).

This paper was about the life of Mickey Mantle. And he was my favorite player on the Yankees. Even though his family was poor, he overcame that to fulfill his dream. He won the triple crown in his last season (Marlin 94). He changed the world by becoming an MLB player by overcoming his rough life, and all the objects that were thrown at