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Another Sox scandal looms

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From: Chicago Sun-Times
Date: 19880701
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Ring Lardner, the great Chicago writer, lost his love for baseball because it had become "the game which the magnates has fixed up to please the public with their usual good judgment" and, it has been suggested, because of the dark reality made obvious in the Black Sox Scandal of 1919.

Seventy years later, it grows certain that another Sox scandal will be visited upon Chicago.

Seventy years. That's a long time. It's been that long and longer that the White Sox have been, along with the Cubs, a part of this two-Major-League-team town. The interrelation of these two teams and their ...

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