Gambling on baseball is a very sensitive subject and to understand why all you need to do is wind the clock back almost 100 years and look at the 1919 World Series between the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox.
Fans who know the history of the game are aware that there was a scandal and that White Sox players conspired with gamblers to throw the Series, but not too many know some of the more interesting facts.
Here's look back at the Black Sox Scandal:
The term “Black Sox” was around before the 1919 World Series. White Sox owner Charles Comiskey was so cheap that he reduced the number of times the players' uniforms were washed. The dirty uniforms gave rise to the term Black Sox.
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