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Buck Weaver. Gouache on paper, 12 x 9 inches. Weaver was banned for life along with seven others following the 1919 Black Sox scandal. He batted .324 in that World Series. FOR SALE DM for details. ⚾️🎨 #blacksox #blacksox100 #buckweaver
Episode Six of my podcast “The Replay: Sports on the Big Screen” is now available. Hear from #BlackSox100 researcher @buckweaver & @RealDBSweeney as they break down the historical accuracy of the 1988 film “Eight Men Out”. DOWNLOAD apple.co/3SyWbk2 @MLBNetworkRadio
Another fun fact: During the 1919 World Series, @Cubs secretary John O. Seys was the stakeholder for bets placed on the @Reds by two of the gamblers who helped organize the fix with the Black Sox — Abe Attell and Lou Levi. #FieldofDreamsGame #BlackSox100
True story: In 1906, @Reds owner Garry Herrmann bet thousands of dollars with three gamblers that the Pittsburgh Pirates would not win the pennant. One bookie was a Pirates fan who informed the team and Herrmann was forced to cancel the bet. #FieldofDreamsGame #BlackSox100
@SABRbbcards @gummyarts Probably the Swede Risberg. Part of the #BlackSox100 Symposium held in Chicagoa few years ago. @gummyarts was kind enough to sign one.
The Fix is in!⚾ The #BlackSox100 Scandal of 1919 made the #CincinnatiReds into #WorldSeries champs But what if the #WhiteSox never threw the series? Were we in store for a White Sox Dynasty? Or was it ultimately the best thing for #MLB? Find out here👇 open.spotify.com/episode/0lxXik…
Huge shout out to @buckweaver!! 🙏 Without his research we would have a vastly different understanding of the #BlackSox100 Scandal.⚾ Thanks to his work we were able to tell the story on #GGNP & imagine what if the 1919 #WorldSeries fix never happened. ow.ly/bNPj50J8sLL
Good stuff! Here’s what I wrote about Hugh Fullerton and his legacy as an early sabermetric pioneer back in 2017: jacobpomrenke.com/writing/hugh-f… #BlackSox100
Good stuff! Here’s what I wrote about Hugh Fullerton and his legacy as an early sabermetric pioneer back in 2017: jacobpomrenke.com/writing/hugh-f… #BlackSox100
Not that we need more comparisons between these two teams, but here we are. Chick Gandil drove in Buck Weaver with the game winner in that one: sabr.org/gamesproj/game… #BlackSox100
Not that we need more comparisons between these two teams, but here we are. Chick Gandil drove in Buck Weaver with the game winner in that one: sabr.org/gamesproj/game… #BlackSox100
Tonight, we have a chance to see the 8th pennant-clinching walk-off victory in American League history. We all remember the last one—Jose Altuve in 2019. Here’s the story of the very first one: Shoeless Joe Jackson with the 1919 White Sox: sabr.org/journal/articl… #BlackSox100
101 years ago today, Eddie Cicotte and Shoeless Joe Jackson confessed to their involvement in the 1919 World Series fix. Check out our new #SABRCentury project looking at the Black Sox Scandal in the courtroom: sabr.org/century/1921/b… #BlackSox100
@WIUBaseball Kelly Wagle’s bootlegging career ended as you might expect: he was murdered by a former partner in 1929. @WesternILUniv’s John Hallwas told Wagle’s wild story in a book and graciously provided materials for my very first @sabr story in 2006: jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… #BlackSox100
@WIUBaseball The Colchester newspaper poked fun at Macomb’s outrage about the Black Sox, since both teams had been trying to hire ringers all summer long. But the small mining town had a well-connected Chicago bootlegger in its pocket that day. jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… #BlackSox100
The announcement of Colchester’s starter, Eddie Cicotte, stunned the home crowd. The fans jeered him all game, but he had no trouble with Macomb’s lineup. Kelly Wagle won big on his bets that day. The Black Sox earned about $250 apiece. jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… #BlackSox100
@WIUBaseball As the 3 Black Sox players arrived in Macomb — on the 6:18 pm train from Kansas City, where Chick Gandil missed the connection — they were whisked away quietly until the game began. Cicotte showed up wearing his 1917 World Series stockings. jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… #BlackSox100
The Macomb team had also hired ringers, minor leaguers from nearby Three-I League teams, to dominate their local rivals. So for the big game on Sept. 11, Wagle used his connections to hire his Chicago pool hall friends: the outlaw Black Sox. jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… #BlackSox100
The bootlegger who hired the Black Sox #OTD in 1921 was an Al Capone associate named Henry “Kelly” Wagle, who wanted to help his hometown of Colchester defeat their rivals from Macomb in the biggest baseball game of the year: jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… #BlackSox100 @WesternILUniv
100 years ago tonight, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, and Swede Risberg were secretly on their way to Macomb, Illinois, hired by a notorious bootlegger to play one baseball game — in a scene straight out of Field of Dreams: jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/brin… @WIUBaseball #BlackSox100
Just found this fun nugget from an old @sabr newsletter: In 1987, Eight Men Out film crew asked @sabrBallparks for help in locating a 1920s-style double-deck stadium they could film at. Few existed, so they later settled on Bush Stadium in Indianapolis. #BlackSox100
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