Buck Weaver

wisdom and modern Enlightenment science and reason, and its relatively exclusive membership (applicants must ask to join and are then vetted and voted upon), the Masonic brotherhood has proved almost tailor-made for weavers of conspiracy theories or opportunistic authors eager to make a buck by imaginatively "exposing" the secret ways and even more…

therefore the Reds won the 1919 World Series. The news hit the front page of the newspaper the next day saying 8 men were acquitted with criminal charges including; “Shoeless" Joe Jackson; pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams; infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg; and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. No team in that year, 1919, played better than the White Sox but they were not a very happy team. The man that caused the whole…

from Claude “Lefty” Williams and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson went missing. Also, there was no other significant evidence to find them guilty. In the end, the verdict was not guilty and the eight men got off free. One of the quotes from the eight men, Buck Weaver, had him stating after the trial: "Everybody knew I had nothing to do with the conspiracy." (Mitchell, 2015) The trial and the scandal had a negative impact on both the players and baseball, itself. This scandal has been embedded in history…

greatest team in the National Baseball League (NBL), and they were determined to throw the World Series for extra money. This huge scandal involved the great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg, and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. The day before the Sox players left to Cincinnati for the World Series on September 29, the players met with Sullivan and Evans, Arnold…

The White Sox of 1919 are considered to be one of the only teams to successfully fix the World Series because they had a set plan to do it. The 1919 white sox were able to fix the world series because they only let a select few know about the plan, they had other people put the bets for the players so they wouldn’t be seen, and they had people put bets on against them so they could make the most amount of profit as possible. The reason why players from the team decided to go along with fixing…

Big time hollywood actors and actress, Grammy-winning musicians or artists are all household names. Celebrities are consistently praised for their talents, but a lot of them are drug users, alcoholics or criminals. Fame has a way of covering crime and helping people to look past a man’s flaws and see them for their talents. The only art form that this is not the case is in sports, in sports, a man can be one of the best baseball players of all time, play for 24 seasons, collect over 4,000 hits…