Eddie Cicotte

American baseball player

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Eddie Cicotte was an American professional baseball pitcher. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1905 to 1920, achieving 209 wins and a career earned run average of 2.38. Cicotte was one of eight players implicated in the infamous Black Sox Scandal. These players were accused of accepting bribes to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series for the Chicago White Sox against the Cincinnati Reds. Although acquitted in court, Cicotte and the other seven players were banned from professional baseball for life by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.1234

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Black Sox Scandal
The accused players were pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude (“Lefty”) Williams, first baseman Arnold (“Chick”) Gandil, shortstop Charles (“Swede”) Risberg, third baseman George (“Buck”) Weaver, outfielders Joe (“Shoeless Joe”) Jackson and Oscar (“Happy”) Felsch, and utility infielder
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The accused players were pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude (“Lefty”) Williams, first baseman Arnold (“Chick”) Gandil, shortstop Charles (“Swede”) Risberg, third baseman George (“Buck”) Weaver, outfielders Joe (“Shoeless Joe”) Jackson and Oscar (“Happy”) Felsch, and utility infielder
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