Sports Illustrated – Who Were the Black Sox? A Look…

This week has been an eventful one for the Chicago White Sox in ways that have had nothing to do with their play on the field.

The Black Sox scandal is probably the most famous scandal in the history of North American sports—endlessly debated, dissected, revived and handed down from generation to generation. The reinstatement of its principals, accused of throwing the 1919 World Series, is a huge deal. The problem is that the generation that heard the story from their parents—and mythologized it in all kinds of media—is dying off.