1919 black sox scandal
Published Friday, December 14, 2007 by Roam | E-mail this post
A proposal to build a coal slurry pipeline with
Lake Superior water from
Duluth, Minn., to the West in the 1980s and a proposal to ship
Great Lakes water to
China in 1998 are examples of the lengths people will go to in order to get their hands on the l
argest body of fresh water in the world. Diverting water outside the
Great Lakes only compounds the problems we are starting to see with the low water levels in the lake; they are reaching historic lows and appear to be going lower.
largest body of fresh water.
For nearly 90 years, the
Black Sox scandal has been
baseball's darkest hour.
Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven others on the 1919
Chicago White Sox were charged with conspiring to throw the
World Series against
Cincinnati. They later became known as the "
Black Sox" and were banned from baseball for life by the game's first commissioner,
Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
1919 black sox scandal.
Mo Vaughn was an infielder and
DH with three teams between 1991 and 2003: the
Red Sox (eight seasons),
Angels (two) and
Mets (two). While with the Red Sox in 1995, he was voted the
American League's Most Valuable Player. He played in three
All-Star Games.
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