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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Something I Didn't Know About Ty Cobb and Eddie Collins and the Black/White Sox

On this day in baseball history in 1926 it was reported that the Detroit Tigers intentionally lost four games to the White Sox over two days in 1917.  The White Sox ended up winning the pennant and the World Series that year.

Tigers included Ty Cobb who was 6-for-17 in the four-game series.



Eddie Collins was with the White Sox.  He was 4-for-14.



It was quite a different era.  Back-to-back doubleheaders and the starters just played all of the games.  Detroit had a game in Cleveland the day before these games in Chicago.

What did Commissioner Landis do after hearing about this?  Nothing to the players.  Landis was commissioner from 1921-1944 and he wanted to keep gambling from bringing baseball down.  He already was working on the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.   In early 1927 he did help enact a new rule that banned anyone from baseball for life if they bet on a game and participated in the game.








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  1. Tom H from ChicagoDecember 30, 2015 at 10:57 PM

    That was a good Sox team but some people have suggested that the Giants (or at least one of their players) threw the World Series. Shoeless Joe, who I think was injured a lot that year, barely hit .300, and Eddie Collins didn't crack .290. Strange couple years for the White Sox; the next year they lost players to the war, then 1919, and then after 1920, most of the starting position players get kicked out.

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