
Alfred Austrian
To certain chroniclers of the Black Sox Scandal, the actor most…

Rube Benton
A hard-throwing, fast-living left-hander, Rube Benton pitched…

Rachie Brown
The Black Sox dealt with a gambler they knew only as “Brown,”…

Bill Burns
“Sleepy Bill” Burns pitched for five major-league teams in…

Robert Cannon
Robert Cannon came to love baseball as a boy growing up in Milwaukee.…

Hal Chase
Hal Chase, whose big league career lasted from 1905 to 1919,…

Eddie Cicotte
Though he didn’t invent the pitch, Eddie “Knuckles” Cicotte…

Eddie Collins
An excellent place-hitter, slick fielder, and brainy baserunner,…

Charles Comiskey
One of the most influential figures in the history of the sport,…

Nat Evans
In the course of researching Sport Sullivan’s life, I became…

Red Faber
Urban “Red” Faber, one of the last pitchers to legally throw…

Happy Felsch
The Black Sox Scandal shocked the sporting public and led to…

Ben Franklin
In announcing the March 1921 indictments of the players and gamblers…

Chick Gandil
Prior to his infamous involvement in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal,…

Joe Gedeon
Even the most casual baseball fan is familiar with Eight Men…

Kid Gleason
He is remembered as the manager of the most infamous baseball…
Harry Grabiner
During Harry Grabiner’s four-decade-long tenure as a front-office…

Garry Herrmann
A self-made success in the rough-and-tumble world of Cincinnati…

Shoeless Joe Jackson
Shoeless Joe Jackson was a country boy from South Carolina who…

Ban Johnson
The most powerful figure of the Deadball Era, Ban Johnson's rise…
Dickey Kerr
Exactly 90 minutes after Chicago White Sox left-hander Dickey1…

Kenesaw Mountain Landis
Some said that baseball owners found Judge Kenesaw Mountain…

Lee Magee
The cover photo on the Sunday magazine insert of the June 29,…

Billy Maharg
On September 27, 1920, suspicions about the integrity of the…