1919 Major League Baseball season 1919 Major League Baseball season The 1919 Major League Baseball season, is best remembered for the Black Sox Scandal, in which the Chicago White Sox threw (purposely lost) the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, 5–3, in order to illegally gain money from gambling. This scandal resulted in commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis banning eight players from baseball for life. The season began on April 19, 1919, when the Brooklyn Robins defeated the Boston Braves 5–2 at Braves Field in the first game of a double header. The regular season ended on September 29 with the New York Yankees defeating the
Ruth Mason (baseball) 1953 seasons. In between, she played for the Miami Beach Belles of the International Professional Softball League in 1952. The All-American Girls Professional Baseball League folded in 1954, but there is a permanent display at the Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum at Cooperstown, New York since 1988 that honors the entire league rather than any individual figure. Then in 1998, Ruth Mason and all Canadian AAGPBL players also gained honorary induction into the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame. Ruth Mason (baseball) Ruth Mason was a Canadian outfielder who played in the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. Born in Moose