The Last Big Baseball Scandal-- Part 5: The Black Sox

By the fall, three players: Jackson, Cicotte and Williams had confessed on paper, but these confessions went missing. The Tribune reported that Arnold Rothstein, the New York gambler who had set up the whole scheme, had bought them for $10,000. When he saw his name was not mentioned, he offered to sell it to the Tribune which refused.

Comiskey suspended those three and five others he felt were involved, even though the Sox were in another pennant race in which they ended up barely missing a trip to the World Series.

--Cooter