The eight players implicated in the Black Sox Scandal were indicted and stood trial in the summer of 1921. On August 2 they were acquitted because of insufficient evidence—largely because key evidence, including the original confessions of several of the players, had disappeared from the grand jury files. (They probably were stolen.) On August 3 the new baseball commissioner, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned the eight players from the game for life.
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