Baseball Gods in Scandal: Ty Cobb, Tris Speaker, and the Dutch Leonard Affair

Is it an ironic coincidence or natural development that perhaps the second greatest gambling scandal in baseball history occurred a mere six days before the start of the 1919 World Series?

On September 25, 1919, a seemingly meaningless game was played between the Detroit Tigers and Cleveland Indians, a game that should have faded to a tiny line item on MLB s historical ledger.

But Hubert "Dutch" Leonard had other ideas, and nearly seven years later he presented letters written by Ty Cobb and ...