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Shoeless Joe should have been banned from baseball. How about Buck Weaver?
In your opinion, should Buck Weaver have been banned from baseball for his role in the Black Sox Scandal.
Here are my two cents. He should not have been banned from baseball. He never received a penny of the cash promised. Though he did participate in the meetings, he never threw the Series based on how he played. For example, the .327 average and no errors speaks for that
As for not telling anyone, he had to be scared. These people were crazy. One threatened to hurt Lefty William's wife if he won the game. The same could have happened with Buck. And Comiskey even knew about the fix beforehand.
What are your thoughts?
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Most of the information I got is from the book "Eight Men Out" by Eliot Asinof, not Wikipedia.
There was suspicion of a fix before the World Series was played. Comiskey knew something was going on.
I have mixed opinions on Buck Weaver.
I know that he played his heart out in the games, trying his best to help the Sox win games that Gandil had already told them to lose... but he did participate in the meetings, and he knew about the throwing.
Of course, like you said, he had to be scared, and for all we know he was probably threatened, too, but I think that he really should have told somebody like Gleason so he could do something about the players. Even though Gleason suspected something was up, he actually could have done something if he knew for a fact they were selling the games. He never received the money for it because Gandil knew he wasn't going to help throw the series.
Even after reading Eight Men Out, I still don't know about Weaver... I'm leaning more in the direction that he shouldn't have been banned because he played fair and tried to win, but he knew about it and never told, so... he did kind of get what he deserved.