Black Sox Game Rained Out

Oct. 6, 1919: Rain in Chicago stops the fifth game of the Black Sox World Series. Los Angeles baseball fans set an attendance record of 21,000 for a double-header between the Angels and the Tigers. I believe this was the ballpark at Washington and Grand.

Sept. 30, 1920: The Times  says, "Crooked baseball! Before that proven charge the American sporting public bows its head in humiliation."

Oct. 1, 1920: Former boxing champion Abe Attell says gamblers made $250,000 [$3,085,954.23 USD 2008] from fixing the 1919 World Series.

Newsboys call the eight Black Sox players the "Benedict Arnolds of Baseball.”

Comments

[Sam Flowers]

One of the ads is for Radium Sulfur Springs at Melrose and Gower, I wonder if the present occupiers there know that was there. I had read many years ago that there was a radium dial manufacturer in that area also. Radium drinking water was popular and I believe bottled in the area.