http://sports.espn.go.com/chicago/mlb/news/story?id=6396358
A possible indication that the Cubs threw the 1918 World Series one year before the 1919 "Black Sox" famously did so.
The truth may well be that this type of thing was much more common than ever suspected in that era of the game, in the time before the rise of Babe Ruth and the Yankees.
Babe Ruth was certainly paid well enough, as well as Lou Gehrig and the other greats that built both Yankees and Major League Baseball history, that they would be impossible for a gambler to buy. With the Yankees then starting to make appearances, win or lose, in a large percentage of World Series that probably extracted organized crime's claws from the World Series. They couldn't afford to buy Murderer's Row, not that I'm saying they were even for sale. Betting against them also wasn't a great way to make a living gambling.
Just my personal theory. But I wonder if the Yankees help save the integrity of baseball along the way in that era.
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