Although gambling scandals have been a part of professional baseball since the sport's beginning, no scandal threatened the game's stature as "the national pastime" more than the revelations that eight members of the Chicago...

The 1919 World Series matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series' were of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine-games series (along...

Byline: Matt Baron 3 Number of times the World Series has used a best-of-nine format, as a way of spurring more interest in the wake of World War I. The 1919 World Series was the first, with the Reds winning five...

Joe Jackson and seven other White Sox were banned from major league baseball for throwing the 1919 World Series. This article examines the validity of Jackson's banishment with respect to his overall performance in the series. A hypothesis test of Jackson's clutch batting performance...

It's too bad "Shoeless" Joe Jackson isn't still alive. It sounds like he's got an ally in presidential candidate Bill Richardson.Richardson, the Democratic governor of New Mexico, took a swing by the "Field of Dreams" movie site in Dyersville on Wednesday.A lifelong baseball fan and...

Baseball commissioner Bud Selig might face a brushback pitch or two when he testifies next week before a congressional committee investigating steroid use among players. But it will be nothing compared with the treatment that Congress gave the sport's first commissioner.In 1920, in the wake...