On the night before the opening game of baseball's 1919 World Series, 46-year-old sportswriter Hugh Fullerton was worried. He suspected the series was going to be rigged. The Cincinnati Reds were ...

Pete Rose, one of baseball’s greatest baseball players who was banned from the sport for life in 1989, will finally be eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame after a ruling handed down Tuesday by the ...

Actress and baseball-lover Alyssa Milano came through with an amazing find on Friday morning. A film archivist at the University of Georgia discovered some rare baseball footage from 1919 that shows ...

For nearly a century, millions of words poured from the confines of the Tribune Tower in stories about crooked politicians, murderous lovers, civic giants, sports heroes, regular folks and big shots, ...

In a house in Scottsdale, Ariz., folded and sitting atop a mass of other papers inside a storage bin, is an obscure slice of baseball’s most infamous scandal. Calling it a slice actually is generous.

A century ago, baseball faced its darkest hour when eight members of the 1919 American League champion Chicago White Sox accepted bribes to throw the World Series. The incident is often seen as the ...

For nearly 90 years, the Black Sox scandal has been baseball’s darkest hour. Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven others on the 1919 Chicago White Sox were charged with conspiring to throw the World Series ...

Chicago White Sox shortstop Charles Swede Risberg, who was implicated in the "Black Sox" gambling scandal of 1919. CHRIS FARRELL: This is Minnesota Now. Time is 12:39. I'm Chris Farrell, and I'm in ...