Question

why was the black sox scandal so devastating to the american psyche?

Answer 1

The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball match fixing scandal in which eight members of the Chicago White Sox were accused of throwing the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money from a gambling syndicate led by Arnold Rothstein.Despite acquittals in a public trial in 1921, Judge Landis permanently banned all eight men from professional baseball. The punishment was eventually defined by the Baseball Hall of Fame to include banishment from consideration for the Hall. Despite requests for reinstatement in the decades that followed the ban remains.It was determined that the three-man National Commission, which oversaw the league's inner workings, would disband in favor of a single commissioner with power to fine and suspend players for gambling and any other activity that he thought might be a detriment to the game.The scandal and suspensions rocked the baseball world, but the decisions Landis made helped to clean up a sport that was near self-destruction. Fans regained confidence in baseball and returned to their state of nirvana.