Say it ain’t so: America open to another great fix

Next year is the 100th anniversary of arguably the greatest fix in sporting history.

US Supreme Court

In 1919, a group of Chicago White Sox players, including Shoeless Joe Jackson, threw baseball’s world series against the Cincinnati Reds.

The impact the fix had on the American public was encapsulated by the apocryphal story of a young boy approaching his hero, Jackson, and crying plaintively: “Say it ain’t so, Joe.”