| Show Sports The world of baseball will always remember the 1919 Chicago White Sox as the team that threw the World Series to Cincinnati Eight players Shoeless Joe Jackson Cl Chick ck Gandil Swede Risberg Buck Weaver Hap lIap Felsch Eddie Cicotte Lefty Williams and Fred McMullin were banned from organized baseball for life by Judge Landis the first baseball commissioner when the scandal broke In 1920 EIGHT PLAYERS were found guilty but 14 other members of the team which Isnow is isnow isnow now known as the Chicago Black Sox of 1919 weren't in kin involved in the World Series fix One such player was Dickie Kerr Kerr had a record of 13 and 7 in 1919 He won two World Series games against the Cincinnati Reds while eight of his teammates were trying to throw the World Series to the Cincinnati Kerr posted a 9 21 record in 1920 He had a mark of 19 17 in 1921 Kerrs Kerr's final year year of baseball was in 1925 when he had a record of 0 01 Another pitcher who wasn't involved in the scandal was Roy Wilkinson The year 1919 was his first year with witti the Chicago White Sox He finished the year with a 1 I-I record Wilkinson posted a m mark rk of 9 7 in 1920 In 1921 Wilkinson had a pitching mark of 4 20 He ended l his s career in 1922 at 0 01 FUTURE HALL of Famer Red Faber W was also a member of the 1919 Chicago White Sox However Faber didn't let the loss lois of eight pl players off the White Sox team upset him Faber raber had four win twenty-win seasons from 1914 to 1933 He also led the American League ine in e run earn twice during his career Faber had a record of 24 14 in 1915 In 1920 h he posted a a record of 23 2313 He led the American League in run earn in 1921 with a mark His pitching record in 1921 was was 25 IS 15 V V. In 1922 F Faber ber entered the twenty twenty game winning circle for his his' fourth and fin final l time ashe as he P ed te ord of f 2117 21 ls ledi the American America Le League gue in ii run earn in 1922 with a 2 80 m mark rk Faber didn't let the Chicago Black Sox scandal of 1919 upset him as he pitched 14 more more years and retired in 1933 with with-a a career record of wins and losses ANOTHER PITCHER Erskine Erskin Er- Er skin Mayer pitched in six g games mes for the Chicago White Sox in 1919 He posted a 3 1 mark for Chicago in 1919 He pitched the last inning in the World Series game in relief of Lefty Williams who was later barred for l life e for taking part in int inthe t the Fixed Series The White Sox lost the fifth game 5 to 0 but Mayer blanked the Reds in the ninth inning to post an run earn-run-average of in one inning of action Tl This s was the last major league appearance appearance appearance ap ap- ap- ap for Mayer as he concluded his career with the White te Sox in 1919 after eight years of baseball Not too many people even know who Erskine Mayer is and the only thing he is remembered remembered for is that he was a member of the 1919 Chicago cago Black Sox Mayer had fine pitching marks of 2119 21 in 1914 and 2115 21 in 1915 as a member of the Philadelphia Phillies EDDIE COLLINS was another innocent member of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox Collins played baseball for the White Sox and the Philadelphia Athletics for tor 25 years ears He lie retired from baseball in 1920 w with ith a career batting average of Collins finished his career with stolen bases Four times Collins led the American League in stolen stoler bases He lie led the American League In 1910 with 81 stolen bases for the Athletics As a member of the Chicago White ox Collins led the American League In stolen bases In 1919 33 1923 47 and 1924 42 Collins' Collins best two ba batting bat ting king years were in 1911 when he batted for the Athletics and andin in m 1923 when he batted for forth forthe forthe th the White te Sox The Innocent layers players seem to be remembered for one Item and that Is that they were baseball players on the 1919 Chicago White Sox that threw the World Series to the Cincinnati Cincinnati Cincinnati Cin Cin- Reds Many Chicago White Sox that were left on the team after the scandal broke in 1920 went on t to have better years However some of 01 the players had I rotten lotten years In the seasons after 1919 and a number disappeared from the baseball world after that season |
