One Hundred years ago today, the infamous Black Sox Scandal began at 3 pm locally in Cincinnati with the Reds' Morrie Rath being hit by a pitch thrown by Chicago's Eddie Cicotte to signal that the betting fix was on.

For you baseball buffs out there, October 1st is one to remember, for the scandal created reverberations felt to this day in American professional sports. It's the reason Shoeless Joe Jackson (nor Pete Rose, for that matter) will never be enshrined in Cooperstown.

Chronicled in books and movies like Eight Men Out and Field of Dreams, the Black Sox Scandal- even a century later- still leaves its mark on the American mind of a cautionary tale of greed, arrogance, and stupidity. 

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