Black Sox Game Rained Out

Posted on October 6, 2009 by lmharnisch
Oct. 6, 1919, Black Sox

Oct. 6, 1919: Rain in Chicago stops the fifth game of the Black Sox World Series. Los Angeles baseball fans set an attendance record of 21,000 for a double-header between the Angels and the Tigers. I believe this was the ballpark at Washington and Grand.

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Sept. 30, 1920: The Times  says, "Crooked baseball! Before that proven charge the American sporting public bows its head in humiliation."

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Oct. 1, 1920: Former boxing champion Abe Attell says gamblers made $250,000 [$3,085,954.23 USD 2008] from fixing the 1919 World Series.
Newsboys call the eight Black Sox players the "Benedict Arnolds of Baseball.”

 
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1 Response to Black Sox Game Rained Out

  1. Sam Flowers's avatar Sam Flowers says:
    October 6, 2009 at 8:39 am

    One of the ads is for Radium Sulfur Springs at Melrose and Gower, I wonder if the present occupiers there know that was there. I had read many years ago that there was a radium dial manufacturer in that area also. Radium drinking water was popular and I believe bottled in the area.

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