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This Day in Legal History: The Black Sox Indictment
On September 28, 1920, a Chicago grand jury indicted eight members of the Chicago White Sox for conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate. That morning, pitcher Eddie Cicotte and “Shoeless” Joe Jackson had reportedly confessed. The scandal—forever after known as the “Black Sox”—remains one of the most famous intersections of crime, sport, and law in American history, and its legal legacy is more instructive than the folklore suggests.
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