![]() ![]() “It turns out the 1919 White Sox were among the highest paid teams in baseball,” said Pomrenke. Pomrenke said they have uncovered payroll records that show the “All of these new pieces to the puzzle have helped provide definitive answers to some old mysteries and helped debunk some of the old myths,” he said.Īmong them, a myth about how poorly paid the White Sox were in comparison to the other teams of the other era. The panel has put together an online project called "Eight Myths Out." He’s chaired a committee that has spent years studying what is known as the Black Sox scandal. “We’ve learned a lot of new information in the ensuing half century,” said Jacob Pomrenke with the Society for American Baseball Research. ![]() The story has become well known through a book, and later a movie titled “Eight Men Out”, named for the number of players later banned from baseball for their roles in the gambling scheme.īut does that story match reality? New research sheds light on what took place - and what didn’t.Įight Men out by Eliot Asinof was published in 1963. Some members of the Chicago White Sox, including the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, threw the World Series. ![]() ![]() This baseball season marks 100 years since what may be the darkest moment in the history of our national pastime. ![]()
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