BOISE, Idaho — This Day In Sports…October 9, 1919:

The Cincinnati Reds defeat the Chicago White Sox, 10-5, to win the World Series five games-to-three. A year later it was learned that eight White Sox players were involved in throwing the Series, leading to the infamous “Black Sox Scandal”. Outfielder “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was at the center of it, and his guilt or innocence has been debated ever since—right through the 1989 motion picture “Field of Dreams”.

The White Sox had won the 1917 World Series, but there was no windfall thanks (or no thanks) to club owner Charles Comiskey, a renowned penny-pincher. Players had few rights and no leverage at the time, and they resented Comiskey. There were gamblers under every rock looking for money-hungry players, and they found some takers in Ch

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