The Chicago "Black Sox"

In 1919, during the baseball world series, eight players from the Chicago White Sox had done something that was believed impossible by everyone. They Threw the 8th Game in the world series, Therefore losing the game to the Cincinnati Reds. the teams manager, Charles Comiskey, was hated by all of the players because he didn't pay them "enough", even though they were the most payed players.

The white sox's outfielder "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Third baseman Buck Weaver were only payed $6,000 dollars a year, even though they were the payed the most on their team. Comiskey's decision to reduce expenses led to there low payment. One of Comiskey's ideas to keep down expenses were to reduce the number of times uniforms were laundered, which then gave rise to the original meaning of "The Black Sox."

Another thing that Comiskey did was take his star pitcher, Eddie Cicotte, and put him out of a game because he didn't want to give out the extra $10,000 dollar bonus he would have won.