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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It's part of the folklore that after the Black Sox World Series fix of 1919, Babe Ruth saved the game.

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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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Clubs such as the Boston Red Sox and Detroit Tigers did not take on their first black players until most other clubs had long utilized black players and clubs like the Dodgers and Giants were well on the way to their long run equilibrium number.

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