Entertainment & Sports Law
Black Sox Trial Docs on Auction Block
Posted Nov 26, 2007, 01:05 pm CDT
By Molly McDonough
A box containing trial documents, letters and memos related to the 1919 White Sox World Series scandal is set to be sold this week in the Chicago area.
Collectors happened upon the documents, though details about their origins remains unclear, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Among the collection are thousands of pages of draft memos and papers from the 1921 criminal trial against the White Sox players who were accused of throwing the Series. There also are documents relating to a subsequent civil suit in which players, who were acquitted though banned from baseball, sued the team for back pay, the Tribune reports.
The box offers promise to historians and archivists who have tried for decades to piece together a dispassionate account of the scandal and its impact on baseball.
The auction, orchestrated by Mastro Auctions in Burr Ridge, begins today and continues through Dec. 13.
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