Black Sox Scandal begins.

(Aug.) Boston bookmaker Joe (Sport) Sullivan, known meets with Chicago White Sox player Chick Gandil at the Hotel Buckminster (reputedly in Room 615) to conspire to fix the upcoming World Series. Eight members of the White Sox are indicted on September 28, 1920 for allegedly accepting a total of $80,000 to intentionally lose games in the 1919 World Series, in what Boston Globe sportswriter Dan Shaughnessy later calls, “The greatest professional sports scandal in American history.” After a trial, all are acquitted on August 2, 1921, but they are banned forever from major league baseball.