The 1919 World Series and The Black Sox The Black Sox's team of 1919, is going to be remembered as the most infamous baseball team of the century, if not of all time. They will never be remembered as the great ball club that they were, with a talented player at every position. A few would have surely been enshrined in Cooperstown. However, because of this scandal they were all banished from the game they loved, and …
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…lawyers. In addition, before the trial, the confessions, and the waivers of immunity magically disappeared. After the jury was set, and both sides presented their cases, the jury found all eight ball players' innocent on all accounts. Nevertheless, the new commissioner Judge Landis banned all eight players from every playing major league baseball again. That ended the career's of eight ball players, and left them out of the only thing they had ever done: Baseball.