The Black Sox Scandal took place in the 1919 World Series. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were banned for life from the game of baseball for taking bribes and losing the World Series. They took the bribes because they weren't getting paid alot of money from the team that they were playing for. Seven of the eight men in the scandal admitted that they took money from gamblers and lost the series. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson said that he wasn't involved in the scandal until his death. Even other players from the scandal said that he didn't met with the gamblers that paid them to lose the series. In 1920 rumors about the White Sox players throwing the series fallowed them until their last series against the St. Louis Browns. The owner of the White Sox placed all seven of the players that were still on the team on the bench for the final series. In the 1921 series Kenesaw Mountian Landis became the first Commissioner of Baseball. He banned all eight players from playing major and minor league baseball for life.

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