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100 years ago today, the Cincinnati @Reds clinched their first National League pennant by knocking off the Giants. That same day, the #WhiteSox arrived in New York for a series with the Yankees ... and a fateful meeting with gamblers. baseball-reference.com/boxes/CIN/CIN1… #BlackSox100 
@Reds It was on this #WhiteSox road trip to NYC — 100 years ago this week — when Eddie Cicotte and Chick Gandil met with gamblers Sleepy Bill Burns and Billy Maharg at the Ansonia Hotel to fix the 1919 World Series. sabr.org/research/black… #BlackSox100
@Reds Weeks earlier, Eddie Cicotte had approached his old teammate, Sleepy Bill Burns, with the promise of "something good" if the #WhiteSox won the 1919 AL pennant. The Ansonia meeting is where the World Series fix started to become reality. sabr.org/research/black… #BlackSox100
@Reds During this same NYC trip, Cicotte, Gandil, and Fred McMullin began recruiting their #WhiteSox teammates — Risberg, Felsch, Weaver & Williams — to fix the 1919 Series. They held a players-only meeting at the Ansonia to discuss the details. sabr.org/research/black… #BlackSox100
@Reds Meanwhile, Sleepy Bill Burns and the ex-boxer Billy Maharg are working their corners — trying to raise funds from Arnold Rothstein or anyone else who can help them fix the 1919 World Series. Rothstein turns them down, repeatedly. blackbarrelmedia.com/s2-infamous-am… #BlackSox100
@Reds What Arnold Rothstein failed to tell Burns & Maharg is that he was interested in getting in on the 1919 World Series fix — just not with them. He sent his trusted partner, Nat Evans, to broker a deal with #WhiteSox players. sabr.org/bioproj/person… #BlackSox100
@Reds All that was yet to come. The 1919 World Series fix would be finalized over the next two weeks — and you can hear the whole story at #InfamousAmerica: blackbarrelmedia.com/s2-infamous-am…. For now, the @Reds had much to celebrate — and a World Series to win. #BlackSox100 @BBarrelMedia
