SINTON HOTEL SKELTON KEY BLACKSOX SCANDAL 1919 WORLD SERIES SHOELESS JOE JACKSON

Description: Vintage Hotel Sinton skeleton key circa 1919. This was the Hotel where the Black Sox: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Chic Gandil, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, Happy Felsch, Lefty Williams, and Fred McMullin met with the gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series. Now we'll never know for sure if this key was used by a member of the Black/White Sox, a gambler, a member of the media or who, but it sure is fun to think who may have used it. Was it Eddie Cicotte's room? Did he use this key to enter the room and find the money under his pillow, was it Comiskey's Suite key? Shoeless Joe's room? Gandil's? A great & unique addition to any Black Sox display or vintage baseball collection. There is also a great scene in the movie Eight Men Out at the Hotel. (PICTURES OF THE BLACK SOX AND SINTON HOTEL NOT INCLUDED, JUST TAKEN FROM THE INTERNET) SEE MY OTHER AUTIONS FOR RARE BLACK SOX AND BASEBALL MEMORAILIA The Hotel Sinton, on the S/E corner of 4th & Vine, was once Cincinnati's premier hotel. It was also the hotel where the Chicago White Sox players and owner, Charles Comiskey, stayed while in Cincinnati for the 1919 World Series, and where gamblers met with seven members of the White Sox to "fix" that World Series. On Sept. 30, 1919, the day prior to the Series opener on Oct. 1, frustrated and angry because they had not received promised advance payments, seven of the eight White Sox players who had verbally agreed to throw the series (Joe Jackson was not present), met in Cincinnati's Hotel Sinton with former boxer, Abe Attell, representing Arnold Rothstein, a mob kingpin. Attell refused to pay the players any cash in advance, instead offering $20,000 for each loss in the best-of-nine World Series. Although the players complained, the seven agreed to do what they could to lose the first two games, in spite of the fact that their two best pitchers would be on the mound. When rumor of the clandestine meeting with gamblers was confirmed after the Series, coupled with evidence that some White Sox players intentionally played poorly during the first two games, eight members of the White Sox were accused of intentionally losing the 1919 World Series in exchange for money promised from a gambling syndicate headed by Arnold Rothstein, a NYC racketeer, business man, and gambler, who was a kingpin of the mob in New York City. Despite being acquitted in a public trial, all eight players were permanently banned from professional baseball by the first, and newly appointed, Commissioner of Baseball, Kenesaw Mountain Landis. The reputation of Chicago White Sox owner, Charles Comiskey, was permanently tarnished by his team's involvement in what became known in the baseball world and beyond as the "Black Sox" scandal. From...Red Legs and Black Sox: Edd Roush and the Untold Story of the 1919 World Series The book outlines Roush's theory that the White Sox were playing to win after Game 1. This theory is developed with Roush's story of Jimmy Widmeyer, the "Million Dollar Newsboy" who ran a newsstand at the Walnut and 5th in Cincinnati. Widmeyer, who was alerted about a possible fix, rented the room at the Sinton next to Black Sox stars Ed Cicotte and Happy Felsch. Widmeyer "with his ear pressed against the wall with a water glass" overhead arguments between White Sox players and the gamblers, presumably Abe Attell, about getting their pay-off for tanking Game one of the 1919 World Series. From the Trial transcipts: Frustrated and angry at getting only $10,000 from Sullivan, seven of the players (only Joe Jackson was absent) met on the day before the Series opener at the Sinton Hotel in Cincinnati with Abe Attell. Attell refused to pay the players any cash in advance, offering instead $20,000 for each loss in the best-of-nine Series. The players complained, but told the gamblers that they would throw the first two games with Cicotte and Williams as the scheduled starting pitchers. Q. [What players were there at the meeting at the Hotel Sinton]? A. There was Gandil, McMullin, Williams, Felsch, Cicotte, and Buck Weaver. Q. What about Jackson? A. I didn't see him there. Q. Did you have any conversation with them? A. I told them I had a $100,000 to handle the throwing of the World Series. I also told them that I had the names of the men who were going to finance it. Q. Who were the financiers? A. They were Arnold Rothstein, Attell, and Bennett. Q. Did the players make any statements concerning the order of the games to be thrown? A. Gandil and Cicotte said the first two games should be thrown. They said,however, that it didn't matter to them. They would throw them in any order desired, it was a made-to-order Series. Q. What else was said? A. Gandil and Cicotte said they'd throw the first and second games. Cicotte said he'd throw the first game if had to throw the ball over the fence [at Cincinnati's park...] Q. Who left the room first? A. Attell and Bennett [alias of gambler David Zelcer of Des Moines, a defendant in the case]. I asked the players what I was to get. Gandil said that I would get a player's part.... After the first game, I met Attell...and then we met Maharg. Attell said he bet all the money and couldn't pay the players until the bets were collected. I told the ballplayers and told Williams that Attell wanted to see them. Williams, Gandil, and I went to see Attell at a place on Walnut Street about a block and a half from the Sinton Hotel.

Price: 1500 USD

Location: Henderson, Nevada

End Time: 2024-09-14T00:56:35.000Z

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