1919 Chicago White Sox season

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1919 Chicago White Sox American League Champions
Major league affiliations
American League (Since 1901)
Location
Comiskey Park (Since 1910) Chicago, Illinois (Since 1900)
1919 Information
Owner(s)	Charles Comiskey
Manager(s)	Kid Gleason
Local television
Local radio

The Chicago White Sox' 1919 season was their 19th season in the American League. They won 88 games to advance to the World Series, but lost to the Cincinnati Reds. More significantly, some of the players were found to have taken money from gambling concerns in return for throwing the series. The resultant Black Sox Scandal had permanent ramifications for baseball, including the establishment of the office of Commissioner of Baseball. Two of the best players in the game, knuckleballer Eddie Cicotte and slugger Joe Jackson, had their careers cut short as a result of their involvement in the fix.

In 1919, Cicotte led the majors with 29 wins. Jackson hit .351 and headed an offense that scored the most runs of any team.

Contents 1 Regular season 1.1 Season standings 1.2 Roster 2 Player stats 2.1 Batting 2.1.1 Starters by position 2.1.2 Other batters 2.2 Pitching 2.2.1 Starting pitchers 2.2.2 Other pitchers 2.2.3 Relief pitchers 3 League Leaders 4 Black Sox Scandal 4.1 The Fix 5 World Series 6 External links

[edit] Regular season

[edit] Season standings

American League	W	L	Pct.	GB
Chicago White Sox	88	62	.629	--
Cleveland Indians	84	55	.604	3½
New York Yankees	80	59	.576	7½
Detroit Tigers	80	60	.571	8
St. Louis Browns	67	72	.482	20½
Boston Red Sox	66	71	.482	20½
Washington Senators	56	84	.400	32
Philadelphia Athletics	36	104	.257	52

[edit] Roster

1919 Chicago White Sox roster view • talk • edit
Roster
Pitchers Joe Benz Eddie Cicotte Dave Danforth Red Faber Bill James Dickey Kerr Grover Lowdermilk Erskine Mayer Tom McGuire Win Noyes Pat Ragan Charlie Robertson Reb Russell Frank Shellenback John Sullivan Roy Wilkinson Lefty Williams		Catchers Joe Jenkins Byrd Lynn Ray Schalk Infielders Eddie Collins Chick Gandil Harvey McClellan Fred McMullin Swede Risberg Buck Weaver		Outfielders Shano Collins Happy Felsch Joe Jackson Nemo Leibold Eddie Murphy		Manager Kid Gleason

[edit] Player stats

[edit] Batting

[edit] Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Pos	Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
C	Schalk, RayRay Schalk	131	394	111	.282	0	34
1B	Gandil, ChickChick Gandil	115	441	128	.290	1	60
2B	Collins, EddieEddie Collins	140	518	165	.319	4	80
3B	Weaver, BuckBuck Weaver	140	571	169	.296	3	75
SS	Risberg, SwedeSwede Risberg	119	414	106	.256	2	38
LF	Jackson, JoeJoe Jackson	139	516	181	.351	7	96
CF	Felsch, HappyHappy Felsch	135	502	138	.275	7	86
RF	Leibold, NemoNemo Leibold	122	434	131	.302	0	26

[edit] Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in

Player	G	AB	H	Avg.	HR	RBI
McMullin, FredFred McMullin	60	170	50	.294	0	19

[edit] Pitching

[edit] Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Williams, LeftyLefty Williams	41	297	23	11	2.64	125
Cicotte, EddieEddie Cicotte	40	306.2	29	7	1.82	110

[edit] Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	IP	W	L	ERA	SO
Shellenback, FrankFrank Shellenback	8	35	1	3	5.14	10
Kerr, DickieDickie Kerr	39	212.1	13	7	2.88	79

[edit] Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts

Player	G	W	L	SV	ERA	SO
Danforth, DaveDave Danforth	15	1	2	1	7.78	17
Benz, JoeJoe Benz	1	0	0	0	0.00	0

[edit] League Leaders

Eddie Cicotte

• MLB leader in wins (29)
• #2 in AL in ERA (1.82)

Cocky Collins

• AL leader in stolen bases (33)

Joe Jackson

• #3 in AL in RBI (96)
• #4 in AL in batting average (.351)
• #4 in AL in on-base percentage (.422)

Lefty Williams

• #3 in AL in wins (23)
• #3 in AL in strikeouts (125)

[edit] Black Sox Scandal

The Black Sox Scandal refers to a number of events that took place around and during the play of the 1919 World Series. The name "Black Sox" also refers to the Chicago White Sox team from that year. Eight members of the Chicago franchise were banned from baseball for throwing (intentionally losing) games.

[edit] The Fix

The conspiracy was the brainchild of White Sox first baseman Arnold "Chick" Gandil and Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, who was a professional gambler of Gandil's acquaintance. New York gangster Arnold Rothstein supplied the major connections needed. The money was supplied by Abe Attell, former featherweight boxing champion, who accepted the offer even though he didn't have the $80,000 that the White Sox wanted.^{[citation needed]}

Gandil enlisted seven of his teammates, motivated by a mixture of greed and a dislike of penurious club owner Charles Comiskey, to implement the fix. Starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, outfielders "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Oscar "Happy" Felsch, and infielder Charles "Swede" Risberg were all involved. Buck Weaver was also asked to participate, but refused; he was later banned with the others for knowing of the fix but not reporting it. Utility infielder Fred McMullin was not initially approached, but got word of the fix and threatened to report the others unless he was in on the payoff. Sullivan and his two associates, Sleepy Bill Burns and Billy Maharg, somewhat out of their depth, approached Rothstein to provide the money for the players, who were promised a total of $100,000.^{[citation needed]}

Stories of the "Black Sox" scandal have usually included Comiskey in its gallery of subsidiary villains, focusing in particular on his intentions regarding a clause in Cicotte's contract that would have paid Cicotte an additional $10,000 bonus for winning 30 games. According to Eliot Asinof's account of the events, Eight Men Out, Cicotte was "rested" for the season's final two weeks after reaching his 29th win, presumably to deny him the bonus. However, the record is perhaps more complex. Cicotte won his 29th game on September 19, had an ineffective start on September 24, and was pulled after a few innings in a tuneup on the season's final day, September 28 (the World Series beginning 3 days later). Reportedly, Cicotte agreed to the fix on the same day he won his 29th game, before he could have known of any efforts to deny him a chance to win his 30th.^[1]

[edit] World Series

NL Cincinnati Reds (5) vs. AL Chicago White Sox (3)

Game	Score	Date	Location	Attendance
1	Chicago White Sox – 1, Cincinnati Reds – 9	October 1	Redland Field	30,511
2	Chicago White Sox – 2, Cincinnati Reds – 4	October 2	Redland Field	29,690
3	Cincinnati Reds – 0, Chicago White Sox – 3	October 3	Comiskey Park	29,126
4	Cincinnati Reds – 2, Chicago White Sox – 0	October 4	Comiskey Park	34,363
5	Cincinnati Reds – 5, Chicago White Sox – 0	October 6	Comiskey Park	34,379
6	Chicago White Sox – 5, Cincinnati Reds – 4 (10 innings)	October 7	Redland Field	32,006
7	Chicago White Sox – 4, Cincinnati Reds – 1	October 8	Redland Field	13,923
8	Cincinnati Reds – 10, Chicago White Sox – 5	October 9	Comiskey Park	32,930

[edit] External links

• 1919 Chicago White Sox at Baseball Reference

1. ^ Cicotte's 29 Wins in 1919

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Preceded by Boston Red Sox 1918

American League Champions Chicago White Sox 1919

Succeeded by Cleveland Indians 1920