Members of the Chicago White Sox of 1919 in court with the attorneys
following accusations that gamblers paid them to
lose the World Series. Club owners, fearing negative publicity from this so-called
"Black Sox" scandal, hired a single
commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, to supervise the game. Landis barred
the Black Sox from Organized Baseball
and helped uphold the "gentlemen's agreement" that preserved the system
for whites only.
Photo Credit: Chicago Historical Society