World Series Scandal: History To Kinesiology

Hanna Sanchez
Randi Slusser
Introduction to Kinesiology: PELEC 18 DATE \@ "MMMM d, y" November 17, 2013
How the World Series scandal is history to kinesiology
How does history play a role in kinesiology you may ask? History plays a big part in everybody's daily lives. History informs you on things your memory can't recall from the past or maybe when things happened and you weren't even born yet. History consists of a ton of information normally about societies that differ from ours. A kinesiologist is knowledge about history of physical activity like the popularity of sports in college, or the lack of opportunity in sports across racial, ethnic, and gender lines. The knowledge of history can help us improve our decisions today. A perfect
The Chicago white sox wear playing the Cincinnati reds that year. That year the World Series was a very big event with the money that was already starting to flow around everywhere if someone could actually know the outcome of the World Series beforehand they could make a pretty big profit. When the fix started there wasn't a single mastermind behind the idea it ended up being a collaboration of ideas. Two people that stand out in this fix were William Thomas burns better known as "sleepy bill" and his partner Billy Maharg. Burns or sleepy bill was an ex-major league pitcher and he was the one that had connections to the players, on he other hand Maharg was the gambler that had all the underground connections. The two had big dreams for big money but hey couldn't do it
After discussing what they needed and had to do they realized that they would need more players to fix the series. So they went along and picked up six more players a pitcher, centerfield, shortstop, third baseman, utility man, and the most popular in the scandal the left fielder Joe Jackson. After getting all the people that were going to participate in the fix of the World Series they needed to get some money from someone fast so they went to someone named Arnold rothstein also known as "The Big Bankroll". Gamblers were betting nearly half a million on the reds, while also agreeing to pay the players a hundred thousand dollars to split. Back in the day pay for baseball players wasn't that great they weren't getting paid like how the players are getting paid now, so getting paid a hundred thousand dollars was taking a years worth pay. These players thought they were the only ones that knew about the fix but little did they know that a lot more people knew about the scandal. A lot of people were needed to raise enough money to make the fix happen so therefore a lot of people were in on the fix they all bet on the reds and they told their friends to also bet on the reds. Rumors were flying around and suspicion was starting to raise people say that Joe Jackson told the white sox coach that the fix was going on but