Did Cubs throw 1918 World Series vs Red Sox?

[JonLP24]

CHICAGO — If Chicago has been willing to believe that a cow caused the Great Chicago Fire, maybe it will buy this one: The White Sox got the idea to throw the 1919 World Series after the Cubs did the same thing one year earlier.

That's the suggestion -- more of a hint, really -- from Eddie Cicotte, one of the infamous Black Sox banned from baseball after their tainted World Series against Cincinnati.

In a 1920 court deposition the Chicago History Museum recently put on its website, Cicotte said "the boys on the club" talked about how a Cub or a number of Cubs were offered $10,000 to throw the 1918 Series they lost 4-2 to the Boston Red Sox.

Cicotte is as vague as vague can be, failing to name any names or provide any details about how the players might have done it or even if he believes the Cubs threw the Series. But if what he suggests is true it means that when it came to fixing ball games in the early 20th century, Chicago was nobody's Second City.

http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=azcentral&sParam=36288787.story

Kind of a long read. The angle about players being underpaid in those days make sense.

[El Supremo]

1. No. Bill Buckner did.

[chollybocker]

2. Where was Bartman's grandpa at that time?

Just sayin. ;)

[Gemini Cat]

3. I've heard this rumour before.

A lot of games were questionable back then. I don't know if the Cubs tossed the series, but I do know players were woefully under paid back then.