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
Babe Ruth League to time. Tom Brady - San Mateo, CA Chris Drury - Trumbull, CT Michael Jordan - Wilmington, NC Jimmy Fallon - Saugerties, NY Bruce Springsteen - Freehold, NJ Jon Stewart - Lawrence, NJ Roy Williams (coach) - Wilmington, NC John Elway - Pullman, WA Scott Boras - Elk Grove, CA Jack Del Rio - Heyward, CA Rush Limbaugh - Cape Girardeau, MO Mike Trout - Millville, NJ Babe Ruth League The Babe Ruth League is an international youth baseball and softball league based in Hamilton, New Jersey, named after George Herman "Babe" Ruth. The parent program, Babe Ruth League, Incorporated,