Baseball is known as America's favorite pastime, but who knew the wholesome sport could cause so much controversy? Eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox made a pact with gamblers to throw the series for a heft sum of money. Find out their fate on this week's episode of Mugshot.  Music by: Swelling"Night II" Bit Laden"The World's Greatest Robbery Series Presents: H1N1" Meydan"Insomnia Pt. 1" SoundCrate"Squad" SoundCrate"Shady Dealings" This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ or send a letter to Creative Commons, PO Box 1866, Mountain View, CA 94042, USA.
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"Eight Men Out" by Eliot Asinof, 1963
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sox_Scandal
https://www.history.com/news/the-black-sox-baseball-scandal-95-years-ago
http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/blacksox/blacksoxaccount.html
https://www.famous-trials.com/blacksox