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How gambling built baseball – and then almost destroyed it

  • Written by Rebecca Edwards, Professor of History, Rochester Institute of Technology
A team photograph of the 1919 Chicago White Sox squad, many of whom would be implicated in throwing that year's World Series.Heritage Auctions

Imagine if, after watching the thrilling victory of the Chicago Cubs in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series over the Cleveland Indians – a game in which the Cubs won their first championship in over a...

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