In 1919 the World Series was to be held in October. The Chicago White Sox were set to play. The White Sox were one of the best teams in the league that year. They had many good players. But with all of the talent that they had they wer

After the series was over newspapers began writing stories about how the series was a fix. It wasn’t until a year later that anything was done. During this time a new commissioner had been appointed to run the league. His name was Kenesaw Mountain Landis. He was given a lot of power and had intentions of cleaning up professional baseball. When Landis heard about this he immediately banned all of the players from the league for life. They all had been trying to find new things to do with themselves. Although this was hard since most everyone knew that they had been banned from professional baseball for accepting bribes. A local businessman by the name of George Miller decided to financially back them in a semi-professional team. The called themselves “The Major Stars” the main players on the team were players involved in the scandal, except for Buck Weaver. Weaver had decided that he would try to clear his name and get back into professional baseball. The team had problems getting respect from the other teams; this was because of their involvement in the scandal. Another part in this was that most of the teams in the area played on the White Sox field. The White Sox would not allow “The Major Stars” to play on the field. One last conflict with the newly formed semi-pro team was playing on Sundays, this was best described by Eliot Asinof by saying “The concept of climaxing the Lord’s Day with a ball game of confessed bribe-takers seemed like a travesty of morality (237-238).” Finally in 1921 the players were acquitted of their charges, th

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