blacksoxscandal

23 photos tagged blacksoxscandal, from 1 member of Flickr Commons.

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[Chick Gandil, Washington NL (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Ted Kerwin said:
    A Black Sox member

[Buck Weaver, Chicago AL (baseball)] (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Wystan said:
    At the Polo Grounds, New York, 8/1/13.
  • Anne (LOC P&P) said:
    Wystan: Thanks for noticing the date and providing us with the location. We'll add these to the description next time we update.

Jim Flynn and Attell (LOC)

from The Library of Congress

  • Randy Reiss said:
    Attell = Abe "The Little Hebrew" Attell, featherweight champ and accused mafia-white Sox go-between during the "Black Sox' scandal. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abe_Attell
  • Wystan said:
    "Assuming an Irish name was not unusual in that era of boxing; there were Jewish fighters with Irish names too; and Jim Flynn, the only man who ever knocked out Jack Dempsey, was actually named Andrea Chiariglione. One reason for the name changes is that there were not enough Irish fighters to satisfy the large number of Irish fans." -- Pete Hamill, "Why Sinatra Matters" (Boston: Little, Brown, 1998), p. 58.
  • Wystan said:
    There were 13 Bain/LOC photos of Jim Flynn on Flickr by November 21, 2010. Another Bain/LOC photo of boxer Jim Flynn: