through all of the deception and back stabbing, Charles Comiskey was paying for the high priced attorneys to defend these players. The players initiated contact with the lawyers, and paid them a meniscus amount of money to retain their services. The players then learned that it was Comiskey who was fronting the bill in exchange for a few minor details. One is that his name was kept clean. Two is that he wanted baseballs name kept clean. And three is that he wanted the players to be acquitted so they could continue to play for him, and he could remain the owner of the best team in baseball. The second thing that helped propel the players to victory was that mysteriously the confessions signed, and the waivers of immunity were stolen from the court. Asinof believes that Arnold Rothstein had these confessions stolen so that he could see how his named was mentioned in these confessions. He was not necessarily incriminated by the confessions of Cicotte, Williams or Jackson, so he had no real need for them, and seemingly after attempts to sell them, got rid of the documents. The third thing that is mysterious about the trial is this. Once the trial was over and the jurys verdict read, not guilty on all accounts of conspiracy, the courtroom erupted. Asinof suggests that even the judge was smiling at the players, and did not proceed in trying to silence the uproar. This suggests a conspiracy, and that the trial was a fraud. However, nothing suggests this as great as the fact that the 12 men of the jury were celebrating the players acquittal in the same restaurant side by side with these eight players. Asinof has written an excellent book that greatly depicts the events leading up to this travesty of baseball history. He has presented his information in a fair, objective way that helps shed light on the whole situation that was going on between the White Sox and their many counter-parts in crime. His opinion however is hidden....
