In America, every fan knows about the Black Sox scandal, in which eight players threw the 1919 World Series, leading to jail terms and fines.

在美国，所有球迷都知道黑袜丑闻(Black Sox)，当时有八名球员在1919年世界大赛(World Series)中打假球，最后被判入狱和罚款。

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Baseball survived the Black Sox scandal of 1919 because it acted vigorously when the thing broke.

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The holocaust, bombing of Pearl Harbor, and the Black Sox scandal are all still historic.

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The famous examples of match fixing in history- the Black Sox baseball scandal of 1919, the New York college basketball scandal of the 1950s or the English football match fixing of the early 1960s all involved players on either no pay or low pay.

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