![]() ![]() ![]() Though acquitted by a jury during the 1921 Cook County “Black Sox” trial, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball’s first commissioner, banned all eight players from baseball for life. Starting third baseman for the Chicago White Sox, George Weaver was one of eight men accused of throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Known for his entanglement in the infamous 1919 World Series Black Sox scandal, his legacy mimics an immortal Shakespearian tragic figure. George Daniel “Buck” Weaver is one of the Dead Ball era’s most renowned ballplayers. Nelson Algren, “The Swede was a Hard Guy” in “The Last Carousel” A territorial animal…who guarded the spiked sand around third like his life…” “A joyous boy, all heart and hard-trying. ![]()
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