1919 World Series
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1919 Chicago White Sox team photo
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| Dates | October 1–9 | ||||||||||||
| Umpires | Cy Rigler (NL), Billy Evans (AL), Ernie Quigley (NL), Dick Nallin (AL) | ||||||||||||
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Umpire: Billy Evans. Reds: Edd Roush. White Sox: Eddie Collins, Red Faber (did not play), Ray Schalk. |
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| Team (Wins) | Manager | Season | |
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| Cincinnati Reds (5) | Pat Moran | 96–44, .686, GA: 9 | |
| Chicago White Sox (3) | Kid Gleason | 88–52, .629, GA: 3 1⁄2 |
The 1919 World Series matched the American League champion Chicago White Sox against the National League champion Cincinnati Reds. Although most World Series have been of the best-of-seven format, the 1919 World Series was a best-of-nine series (along with 1903, 1920, and 1921). Baseball decided to try the best-of-nine format partly to increase popularity of the sport and partly to generate more revenue.
The events of the series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, when several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers to throw (i.e., intentionally lose) the World Series games. The 1919 World Series was the last World Series to take place without a Commissioner of Baseball in place. In 1920, the various franchise owners installed Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the first "Commissioner of Baseball." In August 1920, eight players from the White Sox were banned from organized baseball for fixing the series (or having knowledge about the fix).
The 1919 Chicago White Sox were one of baseball's elite teams. Most of the same players had defeated the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series, four games to two. They had fallen to sixth place in the American League in 1918, largely as a result of losing their best player, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and a few of his teammates as well, to World War I service. Team owner Charlie Comiskey fired manager Pants Rowland after the season, replacing him with Kid Gleason, who had played over twenty years in the majors but had never managed before. The 88–52 White Sox won the American League pennant again in 1919, by 3 1⁄2 games over the Cleveland Indians (world champions the following year).
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