Baseball’s darkest days: the 1919 Black Sox scandal
CBS Sportsline - Professional gamblers Arnold Rothstein and Joe “Sport” Sullivan headed a group of shady characters that hatched the scheme to fix the Series. First baseman Chick Gandil took charge for the White Sox, asking for money up front and recruiting teammates

Readers react: What you think of report
MSNBC - Too much ‘Fan Fare’ UNFAIR to the true fans of the sport. Mitchell should have just handed the list to the appropriate prosecutorial authorities to pursue and be done with it. Next week I want to see the list of players who were deemed clean. Sure

Cause of death of burned body found in June still unknown
Boston Globe - They found Aguirre’s sport utility vehicle about 50 miles away, in Hamden. Investigators are treating the death as suspicious, although it has not yet been categorized as a suicide or a homicide. —– Information from: The Hartford Courant, http:// www

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