Still working through a back log of socks.
Instead of boring sock pictures, I bring you: Sock Week!
Here we have the logo for the Chicago White Sox circa 1919, or more importantly to baseball fans, the period of the Black Sox trial. The story goes that several members of the White Sox team, tired of being nickel-ed and dime-d by the manager, fixed the result the of the 1919 World Series.
This lead to a trial, several of the top plays of the time being banned, a new hard-line commissioner appointed (one Kenesaw Mountain Landis), tough anti-gambling rules being added, and eventually shaped the entire culture of the sport to the point that Pete Rose is still banned from the Hall of Fame for betting on his own team.
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