at team, was impossible to climb out of. In the process of exposing the fix, the wool was pulled over the players eyes many of times. For example, when Cicotte came in to the grand jury to confess, Comiskeys lawyer Alfred Austrian tricked him into signing a waiver of immunity. This type of trickery was also used on the illiterate Joe Jackson and Lefty Williams. So in result of the manipulative efforts of the grand jury and Comiskey, the players secret was finally disclosed to the public. When each of these players were compelled to come forward and express the details of their participation in this scandal, they were all told that the state would take care of them. When in fact the state, the grand jury, among others had no intention of taking care of them, they set out from the beginning to crucify these ball players, and to do it through any means of deception necessary. These men destroyed the integrity of a game, a game that every man, woman, and child saw as part of them, and this could not go unpunished. So even though some of these players were seemingly regretful of what they had done, it made no difference. Newspaper editors, reporters, and such pressured these players to get the story, to give them guilt trips, or just to see if there was anything they were leaving out of the fabled tale. Overall this accusation of a thrown World Series would have never been able to stick without a confession by the players. This confession was only obtained through manipulation and lies, which should have never taken place. During the trial of these eight men, two men seemingly backed them, one being Charles Comiskey, the owner they betrayed, and Arnold Rothstein, the millionaire gambler. But an even greater backer was that of professional baseball, who didnt want these men to be convicted because it would damage the reputation of the game. Several peculiar things had happened, to assure the mens vindication. The first is that...
