Black Sox trial · Chicago jury · 1921

What did the jury decide?

Short answer: Not guilty: all acquitted.

The facts. Eight Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series for gamblers' money. Their signed confessions disappeared before the trial. The case went to a Chicago jury in 1921.

The ruling. Black Sox trial (1921): The jury acquitted the players. Baseball's new commissioner, Judge Landis, banned all eight for life anyway.

Shoeless Joe Jackson is the best known of those banned. The story was told in Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams.

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