A Nov. 25 article in the Chicago Sun-Times reveals that
A mysterious box of letters, memos and legal documents pertaining to the White Sox team accused of throwing the 1919 World Series — some of the papers thought to be lost since the middle of the last century — is bound for the auction block this week after being uncovered by two Chicago-area collectors.
The timing is somewhat amusing, since it comes hard on the heels of the greatest modern-day scandal in the game: Barry Bonds and his fellow steroidians.
There have been several books about the Sox, including one by Gene Carney, author of Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball’s Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded, a treatise that focuses on the 1921 trial of the eight players accused of throwing the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Carney calls the findings a potential treasure trove. The discoveries include “drafts of memos, author-unidentified, that presaged the creation of the commissioner of baseball,” “papers apparently from the … criminal trial…and a 1924 suit in which some of those players sued the team for back pay.”
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