1919 World Series

1919 World Series
1919 Chicago White Sox team photo
Team (Wins) Manager(s) Season Cincinnati Reds (5) Pat Moran 96–44, .686, GA: 9 Chicago White Sox (3) Kid Gleason 88–52, .629, GA: 3+1⁄2
Dates	October 1–9
Venue	Redland Field (Cincinnati) Comiskey Park (Chicago)
Umpires	Cy Rigler (NL), Billy Evans (AL) Ernie Quigley (NL), Dick Nallin (AL)
Hall of Famers	Umpire: Billy Evans Reds: Edd Roush White Sox: Eddie Collins Red Faber (DNP) Ray Schalk
World Series program
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The 1919 World Series was the championship series in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the 1919 season. The 16th edition of the World Series, it 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). MLB decided to try the best-of-nine format partly to increase popularity of the sport and partly to generate more revenue.^[1]

The events of the 1919 World Series are often associated with the Black Sox Scandal, in which several members of the Chicago franchise conspired with gamblers, allegedly led by organized crime figure Arnold Rothstein, to throw the series. It 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 1921, despite being acquitted from criminal charges, eight players from the White Sox were banned from organized baseball for either fixing the series or having knowledge about the fix without alerting the league.^[2]