South Side Sox · Aug 2, 2021
Today in White Sox History: August 2, 2021
Duane Burleson/Getty Images Charlie Tilson of the Chicago White Sox is helped off the field by trainer Herm Schneider, left, and manager Robin Ventura after getting injured trying to catch a fly ball hit by Miguel Cabrera of the Detroit Tigers during the fifth inning at Comerica Park on Aug. 2, 2016.1921
A Chicago jury found the eight “Black Sox” players innocent of conspiring to commit fraud by virtue of fixing the 1919 World Series.
The players expected to return to the White Sox, but commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis permanently banished them — destroying the only team that could have kept pace with the Yankees throughout the 1920s.
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