1919 World Series

That was Michael Stuhlbarg played Arnold Rothstein.

Yes, the man who fixed the 1919 World Series, known as the Brain.

Damon Runyon is there writing about him.

Titanic goes in and takes him down.

You know, sports gambling has always been an issue because there's been a billion incidents of players getting paid off, people throwing games.

The most glaring example is the 1919 World Series, the Chicago White Sox, the Black Sox, that Arnold Rothstein, one of the infamous gangster... bought the White Sox team in 1919 and got them to lose the World Series, which they never should have lost.

They're one of the greatest teams ever.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, I'm a huge baseball fan.

He was a White Sox fan the whole of his life.

He was born two years after the White Sox went in and intentionally lost the 1919 World Series, and he died six years before they finally won a World Series in 2005.

So literally, a lifetime White Sox fan who never saw them win.

And it was Jean Shepherd who said of White Sox fans, and it is applicable again after their week of trauma against Cleveland, quote, "If I was going to storm a pillbox, going to sheer, utter, certain death, and the colonel said, 'Shepherd, pick six guys,' I'd pick White Sox fans because they have known death every day of their lives, and it holds no terror for them."

if there's betting on the game.

And I think that's why, I mean, it's a long ago story, but the story about Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Chicago White Sox, or what was called the Chicago Black Sox, who were charged with throwing the 1919 World Series, and they all lost their jobs.

The commissioner of baseball kicked them out, even though court out in Illinois acquitted him.

But something changed a lot in the 2010s, and the large sports leagues, starting with the basketball league, National Basketball Association, they wanted to actually allow sports betting, the NBA, Major League Baseball, on and on, wanted to allow sports betting.

In what way could it be really damaging for the stock market to have insider trading? What would that do to financial markets and why would that hurt the broader economy?

Well, I think that when any part of the financial system is rigged, if I can call it that.

But that's really what that 1919 World Series debate was about.

Was it rigged? Did somebody throw the game? And yes, did somebody then trade on the inside information that somebody was throwing the game? I think to take your broader point about the U.S.

But the series itself was actually relatively close.

We're going to dive into how the Reds actually won the 1919 World Series.

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And at the time, Cincinnati celebrated, and though the White Sox seemed to play a lackluster series, everyone celebrated the Red Sox for their win.

But it wasn't until September of 1920 when a grand jury got together to indict eight of the White Sox players for conspiracy to fraud and take bribes to throw the 1920s.

1919 World Series.

So it was almost an entire year where the Reds were just enjoying being the champions of the major leagues.

However, their reputations and careers are ruined when the dark secret, dubbed the Black Sox Scandal, reaches the public consciousness.

So to begin with, I am very aware of the situation that came out from the 1919 World Series where the White Sox throw the games and whatnot and the controversy that came out of it.

This movie does a pretty good job of showing the situation, the consequences that led up to why these professional players were so eager to go against the rules of the game and whatnot to make more money in the few games of the playoffs that they were involved with than a whole entire season.

Shifty management and loose morals of the players, well, not all players, but some of the players help bring about the tragic results of the game.

I mean, they did in the, they ...

In the 1919 World Series.

But I mean, the evidence for that is kind of ...

Like for instance, Shoeless Joe Jackson was unfairly banned from the Hall of Fame, uh, for ...

They lost the 1959 World Series.

They lost the 1919 World Series.

That's on purpose.

They won the 1917 World Series on the road, and they won the 1906 World Series at home.

Last time the Rays were in a playoff series at home, they sold 19,000 tickets.

That was the lowest attended playoff game since game 7 of the 1919 World Series.

The lowest attended playoff game since 1919.

So that's one of the Rays' problem.