Special thanks to Gene Carney for his help in compiling the sources listed on this page.
Gene Carney, who died in 2009, was a leading scholar of the Black Sox scandal.
His notes on the controversy (look at past issues via the Archive link, beginning with #268) can be found at the Baseball Archive: Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown: www.baseball1.com/carney/
Links
Pictures and Court Documents Related to the 1921 Black Sox Trial
From the Chicago History Museum
BlackSoxFan.com (numerous images and files relating to the scandal)
Chicago Baseball Museum
Chicago Lawyer: "It Ain't So, Kid, It Just Ain't So"
Where Are They Now?
From Montgomery College (Harvard on the Pike)
Shoeless Joe Jackson
Clear Buck Weaver
General Baseball History
Eddie Cicotte's 1919 contract sold for $6,750 in August 2002; a year earlier, Jackson's "Black Betsy" bat fetched $577,610.
"Cicotte's 29 Wins in 1919" by David Marasco.
Devoted to Buck Weaver, "The Ginger Kid."
Baseball biographies, including Tom Swope's. Also, see Harvey Frommer's "Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat."
A treasure trove of facts and opinions. The site also has numerous links, including The Shoeless Joe Jackson Times. This site is one place you can look up Joe's testimony.
Joe Jackson is in The Shrine of the Eternals.
Sean Lahman's The Baseball Archive is the home of "Notes from the Shadows of Cooperstown."
This is a site of Montgomery College, Maryland. Be sure to have your audio on.
For 1922 ruling on baseball's antitrust exemption.
Thousands of photos from the archives of the Chicago Daily News.
l Information on the ESPN Classic documentary, and an article by Eliot Asinof.
See Trey Strecker's review of Daniel A. Nathan's Saying It's So.
An Arnold Rothstein chronology, including his role in the Big Fix.
"Hugh Fullerton and the Press' Revealing Coverage of the Black Sox Scandal, 1919-1921," by Shaun Payne.
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"Amnesty for Black Sox Third Baseman?" Wall Street Journal, January 17, 1992.
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Chicago Times, "Mystery Man in Sox Case Tells Hunt for Burns," July 24, 1921.
-----. "Record Betting Cause of Alarm, Starts Scandal," October 5, 1919.
Falls, Joe. "Cicotte, 46 Years Later," Detroit Free Press, 1965. (Reprinted in Baseball Digest, February 1966.
Feldman, Chic. Interview with Eddie Murphy in The Scrantonian (Scranton, PA), September 13, 1959.
Flagler, J.M. "Requiem for a Southpaw," The New Yorker, December 5, 1959.
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Hynd, Alan. True Detective, November or December, 1938. A very lengthy account of the fix. The copy in the Cooperstown library is readable, but the month on the cover is illegible.
Isaminger, James. "Gamblers Promised White Sox $100,000 to Lose," in the Philadelphia North American, September 27, 1920. (Reprinted in Baseball Digest, October-November, 1959.)
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Menke, Frank G. "Elevated Upon the Shoulders of Wrong and Rebellion." The Sporting News, January 31, 1924
-----. "What Became of $10,000 Reward Comiskey Offered for Discovery of World Series Crookedness?" The Sporting News, April 10, 1924.
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-----. "Menke Details Startling Revelations at Jackson's Suit Against White Sox," The Sporting News, April 24, 1924.
Milwaukee Journal coverage of trial, Joe Jackson vs Chicago White Sox, January and February, 1924.
-----. "Judge Gregory Mourned; Funeral to be Saturday," November 30, 1939.
Mullin, John. "Comiskey Rewarded Pals with Sox-Giants World Tours," The Chicago Tribune, March 30, 1998.
The Nation, editorial, "The Baseball Scandal," October 13, 1920.
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The Sporting News, March 13, 1919, "Where Jackson Goes Williams Follows." No author credited.
------. October 7, 1920, "When Baseball Gets Before the Grand Jury." No author credited.
-----. February 10, 1921. Untitled, uncredited report on Philadelphia interview with Eddie Collins and reactions.
-----. February 21, 1924. Untitled editorial.
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Vintage & Classic Baseball Collector, March 1995. Reprint of the play-by-play of the 1919 World Series from The Spalding Guide.
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Weir, Hugh C. "The Real Comiskey," Baseball Magazine, February 1914.
Williams, Joe. "Dickie Kerr Discusses the Black Sox." Column is undated, source unknown; from player file of Eddie Cicotte in National Baseball Library, Cooperstown, NY.
------. Column title unknown. World Telegram, September 24, 1959.
Williams, Ted. "It's Time to Open the Door," The National Pastime #18, Society for American Baseball Research, 1998.
PAPERS
Christian, Ralph J. "Beyond Eight Men Out: The Des Moines Connection to the Black Sox Scandal," presented at the 2003 National Convention of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR), Denver, Colorado, July 2003.
VIDEOS
The Black Sox Scandal, documentary, ESPN Classic, 2001.
The Chicago White Sox: A Visual History, produced by Major League Baseball via Phoenix Community Group, 1987.
The Trial of Buck Weaver and Joe Jackson, Chicago Lincoln and Chicago American Inns of Court, 1992.
Witness, "The Trial of Joe Jackson," episode aired January 28, 1961, CBS-TV.
"World Series Fixed!" The Black Sox Scandal, documentary, The History Channel, 1997.