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Charles Arnold "Chick" Gandil (January 19, 1888 – December 13, 1970) was an American professional baseball player. He played for the Washington Senators , Cleveland Indians , and Chicago White Sox of the American League .
Chick Gandil, the mastermind of the scandal. On September 18, 1919, White Sox player Chick Gandil met with Joe "Sport" Sullivan, a Boston bookmaker, at the Hotel Buckminster near Fenway Park. The two men discussed plans to throw their upcoming series with the Cincinnati Reds for $80,000. [6]
The book Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof and the movie based on the book does record that Cicotte, despite being grossly underpaid for a pitcher of his ability, resisted repeated attempts by Chick Gandil to get him to throw the series until just days before the World Series opened when it became clear that Comiskey would never pay him even part ...
Chicagoans are familiar with disappointment. “There’s always next year,” was the motto for generations of Cubs fans who waited 108 years between the team’s last two championships. Yet ...
Gamblers "Sport" Sullivan, "Sleepy Bill" Burns, and Billy Maharg get wind of the players' discontent, asking shady player Chick Gandil to convince a select group of Sox—including star knuckleball pitcher Eddie Cicotte, who led the Majors with a 29–7 win–loss record and an earned run average of 1.82—that they could earn more money by ...
In 1993, LaFleur played Babe Ruth in the coming-of-age comedy “The Sandlot,” and before that, in 1989, he took on the role of Black Sox player Chick Gandil in “Field of Dreams.”
The conspiracy was the brainchild of White Sox first baseman Arnold "Chick" Gandil and Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, who was a professional gambler of Gandil's acquaintance. New York gangster Arnold Rothstein supplied the major connections needed.
First baseman Chick Gandil hit .290, third baseman Buck Weaver.296, and center fielder Oscar "Hap" Felsch hit .275 and tied Jackson for the team lead in home runs with only seven (as the dead-ball era was coming to a close).