PBS has a really good new doc about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal.

Some highlights:

--Arnold Rothstein promised to pay the 8 players $100,000 in all, to throw the World Series; however, they only received an estimated $30,000-$40,000.

--Rothstein made $350,000 on the Series, which is over $6M in today's money.

--The 8 players were eventually acquitted, since the case turned on proving their "intent", which was too hard to prove.

--However, the next day, the new MLB Commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned them all for life from playing baseball.

--The doc ends with a look at the mythical "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and ends by saying plaintively, "Say, it ain't so, Joe!"

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