If you decide to stay overnight in Boston for a Red Sox game you may choose to stay at a hotel virtually next to Fenway Park and that is the Buckminster, but it is also noted for a dark connection to baseball history. There is a plaque at the hotel commemorating the site of the formulation of the Black Sox Scandal and that leads to another connection – Eddie Cicotte.
Cicotte had the nickname “knuckles” and that was given since eight men out the righty was one of several credited with inventing the knuckleball. Cicotte pitched for the Red Sox early in his career as a starter and reliever who was 41-48 in four years with three saves while in Boston.