The Black Sox Scandal of 1919 is widely considered one of the greatest controversies baseball has ever known, and one that almost destroyed the game forever, "The Black Sox Scandal is perhaps the most devastating story. of its type. » Eight Chicago White Sox players conspired to throw the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds in exchange for money. As you will see, countless works have been done on this scandal, its context, its impact and its legacy. After reviewing a number of works on the subject, one of the main questions that has consistently been raised about the scandal is "who exactly is to blame?" » The book Eight Men Out: The Black Sox and the 1919 World Series (New York: H. Holt, 1987), by author Eliot Asinof, is widely considered one of the best articles ever written on the scandal. Asinof, through his own extensive research, provides excellent insight into the scandal. One of the debates Asinof creates as a result of this book concerns the idea of ​​who is responsible for the scandal. Asinof, himself, appears to point the finger at White Sox owner Charles Comiskey, who is known for underpaying his players. Asinof sees the underpayment of these players as a key factor in the scandal. In the book Past Time Baseball & Its History (New York: Oxford University Press, 2001), author and baseball historian Jules Tygiel, while declaring Eight Men Out as "the definitive history of the Black Sox scandal", offers his own opinion. that it was not Comiskey, but the greed of the White Sox players that was responsible for the scandal. Another key name is added to the mix in the article “The Great Gatsby,” The Black Sox, High Finance, and American Law,” Michigan Law Review, Vol. 88, No. 2 (N...... middle of paper ......out", but as Bennett points out, Jackson "later recanted his confession". Bennett also acknowledges that although Jackson's statistics stand out as being extremely productive in the series, "detractors pointed out that he may have compiled impressive statistics, but he did not hit in the clutch shot. A question that may however be raised about Bennett's study is whether the method he used can be effective." applied to the dead ball era in which Jackson played, and whether that in any way taints Another result, Shoeless Joe Jackson is the most controversial figure in this scandal, because there is no definitive proof of Joe Jackson's guilt one way or another, as we know. As we'll see later in this article, there are many comparisons that can be made between Joe Jackson and another accused cheater, Pete Rose, in terms of the cloud that surrounds them both over their guilt or innocence..