1919

The 1919 World Series matched the Chicago White Sox against the Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine series . Baseball decided to try the best-of-nine format partly to increase popularity of the sport and partly to generate more revenue. The series is often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago team conspired with gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series games. The 1919 World Series was the last World Series to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place. In 1920, the various franchise owners installed Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first "Commissioner of Baseball." In August 1921, eight players from the White Sox were banned from organized baseball for fixing the series. This caused many forms of controversy a lot of people had money riding on this game on…

of gamblers where the ways and means of throwing a game are discussed and does not promptly tell his club about it, will ever play professional baseball.” This famous quote stated by the first ever commissioner of baseball, Judge Keneshaw Mountain Landis, described his ruling against the eight Chicago White Sox players that were accused of putting a “fix” on the 1919 World Series (Andrews, Evan). This ruling was the first of the “iron fist” decisions made by the newly named commissioner who was…

Trenton Harlan Mrs. Baltz English III 29 September, 2016 Fixing the 1919 World Series It’s 1919, the great American League White Sox with 88 wins and 55 losses up against the unbeatable National League Cincinnati Reds with a tremendous 96 wins with only 44 losses on the season. A battle of the best. The big news made headlines. Would Kid Gleason’s Sox beat the Pat Moran’s Reds? There’s a little bit of a turn of events though. Are the White Sox happy to be in the World Series? But there’s more…

“Fixed” World Series of 1919 Seated in the stadium of the White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds; the crowds are roaring, for it’s the biggest game of the 1919 season. Excitement and anxiety is contagious, as everyone waits in suspense for the first pitch to be thrown. All of America is waiting in the stadium and around their televisions for the outcome of this momentous occasion to begin. No one could guess that this event was about to be ruined by the act of eight players. As baseball and gambling…

Joseph Jefferson Jackson was a professional baseball player, who was one of the best players of his time. However, his reputation tarnished when he, including seven other teammates were accused of losing a game in order to earn cash from gamblers; hence were banned from playing professional baseball for life. Nevertheless, I have confidence that Jackson wasn’t involved in the 1919 World Series scandal. First of all, during a game, he and his teammates were accused of participating in a fix with…

Injustice has always been a part of society. But, it is never more prevalent than in sports. Every call is up to debate. When you look at the moral injustices in sports there is one that every baseball fan knows all too well. Joe Jackson, one of the top all-time hitters, was banned for life after accusations that he and seven other White Sox plotted to throw the 1919 World Series. For those who do not know about the 1919 World Series, here is a look at what took place. The World Series was a…

In my opinion, the treaty of versai did cause the start if WWII. . • The treatie of versallie is a treatie that was signed in 1919, after World War I, hoping to bring an end to it. • The treatie was supposed to end it, but unluckily, it was the cause for World War II. • It placed a number of limitations on the people of Germany. • There were many settlements in the treaty, one of the main treaty was that Germany had to take blame for the war and make compensations to the members under Dawes…

In the early 1920’s, numerous attempts at securing peace among nations influenced the many policies that were written in the hopes that the world would become united despite World War I, which ultimately destroyed the pre-war worlds confidence. Many of these attempts and creations of unity were carried down into policies that were written into a document called the Treaty of Versailles. This treaty was written based on 14 points that Woodrow Wilson deemed important to world peace and brought an…

Tanner Weatherbee Professor Dr. Babb APUSH/AP Language 26 January 2015 Brilliant Compelling Title :) Following the assassination of Austria’s Archduke Francis Ferdinand in the warm summer of 1914, the major powers of Europe―split into two rivaling alliances―mobilized their armed forces and plunged Europe into World War I. By the end of 1917, more than a million French troops had been lost. France’s British, Russian, and Italian allies, along with the Ottoman, German, and Austro-Hungarian…

Firms’ overall business strategies and approaches changes during their expansion process (Penrose, 1959) and the expansion strategies will also depend on their business context. Firms evolve, according to Gammeltoft et al. (2010), through the co-creating of the economic system and in this process, the firms and its strategies change and this change will have a remarkable effect on the domestic economic outcome. As a result of governments respond to the emergence of firms by developing…