The Black Sox Scandal
	The Players Charles Comisky The Bet The Series Law & Order The Aftermath Work Cited
				Baseball in the United States is a rather popular form of entertainment, after all it is often reffered to as "America's Pastime."  Despite the amazing plays and magnificent walk off home runs there is one factor that keeps the fans coming back to the statdium, game after game, season after season.  That factor is that the fans never know who is going to win the game before the game is over.  If the fans believed that a game was fixed and the players had been payed off to perform, or not perform in a specific manner then attendance at each game would plummet.  Talent would no longer come from players who worked hard; talent would be bought and paid for.  Once the fans stop idolizing players and team, they will stop coming to the games, and once they stop coming to the games the individual ball clubs would lose money from loss of ticket sales.  Baseball as a business would fail.  Therefore, in order to preserve baseball as a business as well as a form of entertainment, there must be strict rules with which players and teams must abide by.        In 1919, at least eight members of the Chicago White Sox agreed to lose the World Sereis(against the Cincinnati Reds) intentionally so that a group of gamblers would have a sure thing from which they could profit.  Those players tarnished the image off Major League Baseball, and although all of the players involved were aquitted of criminal charges, they were all banned from involvement  in professional baseball for life.