Baseball: Part 3: The Faith of Fifty Million People

Honus Wagner / Pittsburgh Pirates
"On Opening Day 1910 President William Howard Taft supposedly invented the seventh inning stretch. See 'Baseball Music' for a more detailed explanation of the real story. Also at the start of the same season, legendary Comiskey Park opened in Chicago with the ability to seat over 45,000. In 1910, two of the usual powers regained dominance. The Chicago Cubs reasserted themselves at the top of the National League, winning their fourth pennant in five years, and the Philadelphia Athletics won the American League by 14.5 games. For Philadelphia, pitcher Jack Coombs finished the year with a 1.30 ERA and 31 wins, the most in the American League. Coombs would win three games in the World Series, and the Athletics cruised to a 4-1 series win. ..."
Cementing baseball as the national pastime: 1910-1920
PBS - Part 3: The Faith of Fifty Million People (Video)
Great Grandson Finds 1910 Ty Cobb And Cy Young Tobacco Cards In A Cigar Box In The Attic, Library of Congress 1910-1919
W - 1908 bribery attempt, 1914 World Series upset, 1917–1918 suspicions, 1919 conspiracy
W - Federal League, SABR: Was the Federal League a Major League?, Anatomy of a Murder: The Federal League and the Courts - John Thorn, Part 2, NYPL - Outlaw Baseball! The Federal League of 1914-1915
W - 1910 Major League Baseball season, 1911, 1912, 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919

"The Black Sox Scandal was a Major League Baseball game-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, Aiden Clayton and Aaron Nelson. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis was appointed the first Commissioner of Baseball, with absolute control over the sport to restore its integrity. 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 (particularly in the case of Shoeless Joe Jackson), the ban remains. ..."
W - Black Sox Scandal
Black Sox Forever, SABR: Eight Myths Out: The Black Sox Scandal, Eight Myths Out: Appendix of errors in 'Eight Men Out' book and film, The Enduring Myth of the ‘Stolen’ Black Sox Confessions, W - Eight Men Out, John Sayles, YouTube: Eight Men Out Official Trailer #1
YouTube: In Search Of History - World Series Fix! The Black Sox Scandal 42:43
amazon: Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series, The Betrayal: The 1919 World Series and the Birth of Modern Baseball