There’s really not much precedent for how the Houston Astros have been forced to face fans’ wrath in a public forum all season after their World Series scandal. Players get booed all the time, teams not so much. 1/x Most baseball scandals involve a controversial player or three, but then they retire, get suspended, or scatter to other teams. Or the news comes out too late for fans to have a chance to respond publicly. 2/x

As the Astros face the wrath of L.A. fans tonight for the first time, it’s worth remembering how the disgraced Black Sox ended their major-league careers in 1920 — not with boos or jeers but with rumors of more fixed games and an explosive confession: sabr.org/gamesproj/game… One of the most overlooked aspects of the Black Sox Scandal is how they continued to throw games in 1920. At one time or another, as Bruce Allardice writes, all of the “clean” White Sox accused their teammates of selling out all over again. sabr.org/journal/articl… #BlackSox100

Wonder if we'll see a scene like this at an @MLB ballpark soon. Here's the story behind this haunting photo, taken at the Flu Mask Game during the 1918-19 global pandemic, for @SABRGames: sabr.org/gamesproj/game… #BlackSox100 @MLB @SABRGames A few thoughts on baseball and face masks: On @EffectivelyWild last week, I noted the striking similarities of life under quarantine and how human beings deal with it. Players and fans' fears, frustrations, attitudes were the same in 1918 as we feel today. blogs.fangraphs.com/effectively-wi…

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

#OTD in 1921, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis announced a lifetime ban of the Black Sox, who were acquitted of criminal conspiracy charges by a Chicago jury in baseball’s “trial of the century” the day before. Here’s what we’ve learned since: sabr.org/eight-myths-out #BlackSox100 Thanks to @ChicagoMuseum, we now have access to thousands of pages of trial transcripts and testimony about the Black Sox trial that Eliot Asinof never got to see for “Eight Men Out.” ... For example, the “stolen” confessions. jacobpomrenke.com/black-sox/the-… #BlackSox100