Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
field

On Friday, September 2, 2022 at 1:35:30 AM UTC-5, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

Gee, and people think you're a nutcase...can't imagine why.

On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

https://nypost.com/2019/05/07/ex-nba-referee-pleads-guilty-in-ncaa-basketball-bribery-scandal/

For a membery refersher on the dangers of this

On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_NBA_betting_scandal

On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

https://www.sportscasting.com/the-3-biggest-referee-scandals-in-sports-history/

On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

https://sportshandle.com/sports-betting-scandals-history/

The Most Notorious Sports Betting Scandals Of All Time
sports betting integrity monitoring

Disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy.
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Gary RotsteinbyGary Rotstein
March 2, 2022

The question has hung there ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018
ruling allowing states to legalize sports betting: Will a higher volume
of wagering, done openly under regulation, increase or reduce the risk
of corrupt activity such as game-fixing?

A case can be made for either side of the debate, as in:

More money is being wagered than ever before, so naturally, there
will be more temptation and avenues for athletes or those bribing them
to profit from influencing the outcome of contests.
More eyes than ever are monitoring wagers and their possible link to
on-field performance, and the legal gaming industry will be
hyper-vigilant because it has more to lose from corrupt activity than
anyone.

Notorious sports betting scandals from Black Sox to post-PASPA

The sports gambling violation to make the biggest headlines since states
outside Nevada began legalizing such betting was not one involving
point-shaving or other criminal conduct.

In November 2019, the NFL suspended Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh
Shaw through the 2020 season for placing a legal football bet in Las
Vegas. At the time, he was on injured reserve and not interacting with
his team, and the league reported no finding that he was using any
inside information.

Still, said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, “If you work in the NFL in
any capacity, you may not bet on NFL football.”

But participants in any sport — rules and regulations be damned — are
susceptible to the same attraction the general public finds in wagering
on a contest. Professional and collegiate athletes, in fact, may feel
confident that their own knowledge of sports gives them a decided
advantage over the average person in doing so.

The desire of some for high living, particularly in cases where they’re
in financial trouble or in college yet to earn income commensurate with
their status, can lead to more nefarious gambling-related problems.

Those are among the factors — and you can throw in compulsive gambling
issues and plain old greed, as well — that have created U.S. scandals
involving the intersection of sports and gambling.

Sports Handle put together the following list of the most notorious
game-fixing, point-shaving, racketeering, unsanctioned gambling, and
other seedy behavior connected to sports betting that we know of. More
such events will undoubtedly, sadly earn their way onto the list in
years ahead. We just can’t say whether the growth will be faster or
slower as a result of additional state-by-state legalization.
The curse of the Black Sox

The Black Sox scandal has become arguably the best-known example
combining sports and gambling for multiple reasons:

In tainting baseball, it altered the image of far and away the
nation’s most popular sport at the time.
It involved corruption on the sport’s highest stage, the World Series.
It forever ruined the legacy of star outfielder “Shoeless” Joe
Jackson, blocked from the Baseball Hall of Fame despite his denial of
illicit participation and his .356 career batting average that is the
third highest all-time.
The well-received John Sayles film Eight Men Out in 1988 made the
scandal part of popular culture, supplementing many books written about it.

The American League-winning Chicago White Sox headed into the World
Series of 1919 as heavy favorites over the NL’s Cincinnati Reds, but the
odds came down by the time the series started.

That’s because heavy bets on the Reds had been placed with illegal
bookmakers in the days before the best-of-nine series started, and
rumors were spreading that a fix was in. The rumors proved true.

While many of the details remain murky and debated a century later —
including the extent to which players deliberately underperformed — it’s
unquestioned that members of the White Sox took money from gamblers on
the condition that they lose the series.

A faction of White Sox players harbored hostility over their treatment
by owner Charles Comiskey, although the team actually had one of the
highest payrolls in the league. First baseman Chuck Gandil led them in a
plan to accept thousands of dollars from gamblers tied to organize crime.

Not all of the White Sox were in on the scheme, and they climbed back
from a 4-1 series deficit by winning the next two games before
succumbing 10-5 in the eighth game. (The players involved also
reportedly became angry at failure to receive agreed-upon payments and
abandoned the plot, at least temporarily, after the fifth game.)

A grand jury that investigated in 1920 indicted eight players and five
gamblers. Jackson was among those charged even though he batted .375 in
the series and threw out five runners.

A jury in August 1921 acquitted all eight players of anything criminal,
but new baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis nonetheless
banned all eight from professional baseball for life based on the
confessional statements from a number of them.

One other fallout from the scandal — in lore at least — is what came to
be known as the “Curse of the Black Sox.” The club did not win another
American League pennant until 1959 and waited until 2005 for its next
World Series title.
Charlie Hustle’s baseball bets
pete rose mlb betting
Jun 17, 2017; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Reds former player Pete
Rose speaks to the crowd during a ceremony unveiling his statue at Great
American Ball Park. (David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports)

Pete Rose’s stature as baseball’s all-time hits leader has made his
gambling-related fall from grace a compelling story for decades for both
his defenders and critics.

Rose was widely heralded in 24 seasons as a player, but his downfall
came as manager of the Cincinnati Reds in 1989. An MLB investigation
found he had been regularly betting on baseball games in violation of
league rules for years, including placing wagers on his own team.

Rose agreed to an indefinite ban from the sport in 1989 while
maintaining he was not guilty of baseball betting. His denials continued
for years until admitting in a 2004 autobiography, My Prison Without
Bars, that he was a frequent bettor, though never against his own team.

“I bet on my team to win every night because I loved my team, I believed
in my team,” Rose told broadcaster Dan Patrick in 2007.

He applied unsuccessfully for reinstatement from the league ban in 1992,
1998, and 2015. In 2020, in the wake of the Houston Astros cheating
scandal and MLB’s growing marriages with legal sportsbooks, he filed a
new appeal. He and supporters hope that a reprieve from MLB would enable
him to win induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, which bars anyone
on MLB’s ineligibility list.
NCAA hoops scandal casts a wide net

No one hears much about City College of New York basketball these days,
and there’s a reason for that.

The school was at the heart of college basketball’s biggest scandal
ever, at a time when it was coming off a feat never matched before or
since: CCNY won both the NCAA and NIT (the bigger prize at the time)
tournaments in 1950.

An investigation in 1950-51 of organized crime involvement in paying
players to shave points found a total of 33 players at seven schools had
participated between 1947 and 1950. The scheme had its genesis in
point-shaving first done at summer league games played by collegiate
players in the Catskills.

Three stars of CCNY’s national title team were involved, and the case
led the school to deemphasize sports, with its basketball program
eventually settling at the Division III level.

But the conspiracy also tainted the programs at New York University,
Long Island University, Manhattan College, Bradley University, the
University of Toledo, and even Adolph Rupp’s University of Kentucky,
which was forced by the NCAA to cancel its 1952-53 season.

As in most such cases, the players cooperated with prosecutors and
received no prison time for their involvement, while the illegal
bookmakers and their gambling associates went to jail.
Foul called on NBA ref

After officiating nearly 800 games over 14 seasons in the NBA, Tim
Donaghy’s career came to an end in July 2007 due to gambling-related
payments that may or may not have affected the outcome of games.

He pleaded guilty a month after his suspension to federal charges of
conspiracy to engage in wire fraud and transmitting wagering information
through interstate commerce. He was sentenced to 15 months in a prison
and halfway house and fined $500,000.

Donaghy was involved in a scheme with two longtime suburban Philadelphia
acquaintances who were looking to wager on games he was officiating. He
would supply them information, they would place bets based on it, and he
would be paid off if the game resulted in their desired outcome.

It was never proven that Donaghy tailored his calls to favor a certain
team or point total, but he was found to have himself bet on many of the
games he was working.

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> On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
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>> field
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> https://www.sportscasting.com/the-3-biggest-referee-scandals-in-sports-history/

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> On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
>> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
>> field
>
> https://sportshandle.com/sports-betting-scandals-history/
>
>
> The Most Notorious Sports Betting Scandals Of All Time
> sports betting integrity monitoring
>
> Disgraced NBA referee Tim Donaghy.
> Share on Facebook
> Share on Twitter
> Gary RotsteinbyGary Rotstein
> March 2, 2022
>
> The question has hung there ever since the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018
> ruling allowing states to legalize sports betting: Will a higher volume
> of wagering, done openly under regulation, increase or reduce the risk
> of corrupt activity such as game-fixing?
>
> A case can be made for either side of the debate, as in:
>
> More money is being wagered than ever before, so naturally, there
> will be more temptation and avenues for athletes or those bribing them
> to profit from influencing the outcome of contests.
> More eyes than ever are monitoring wagers and their possible link to
> on-field performance, and the legal gaming industry will be
> hyper-vigilant because it has more to lose from corrupt activity than
> anyone.
>
> Notorious sports betting scandals from Black Sox to post-PASPA
>
> The sports gambling violation to make the biggest headlines since states
> outside Nevada began legalizing such betting was not one involving
> point-shaving or other criminal conduct.
>
> In November 2019, the NFL suspended Arizona Cardinals cornerback Josh
> Shaw through the 2020 season for placing a legal football bet in Las
> Vegas. At the time, he was on injured reserve and not interacting with
> his team, and the league reported no finding that he was using any
> inside information.
>
> Still, said NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, “If you work in the NFL in
> any capacity, you may not bet on NFL football.”
>
> But participants in any sport — rules and regulations be damned — are
> susceptible to the same attraction the general public finds in wagering
> on a contest. Professional and collegiate athletes, in fact, may feel
> confident that their own knowledge of sports gives them a decided
> advantage over the average person in doing so.
>
> The desire of some for high living, particularly in cases where they’re
> in financial trouble or in college yet to earn income commensurate with
> their status, can lead to more nefarious gambling-related problems.
>
> Those are among the factors — and you can throw in compulsive gambling
> issues and plain old greed, as well — that have created U.S. scandals
> involving the intersection of sports and gambling.
>
> Sports Handle put together the following list of the most notorious
> game-fixing, point-shaving, racketeering, unsanctioned gambling, and
> other seedy behavior connected to sports betting that we know of. More
> such events will undoubtedly, sadly earn their way onto the list in
> years ahead. We just can’t say whether the growth will be faster or
> slower as a result of additional state-by-state legalization.
> The curse of the Black Sox
>
> The Black Sox scandal has become arguably the best-known example
> combining sports and gambling for multiple reasons:
>
> In tainting baseball, it altered the image of far and away the
> nation’s most popular sport at the time.
> It involved corruption on the sport’s highest stage, the World Series.
> It forever ruined the legacy of star outfielder “Shoeless” Joe
> Jackson, blocked from the Baseball Hall of Fame despite his denial of
> illicit participation and his .356 career batting average that is the
> third highest all-time.
> The well-received John Sayles film Eight Men Out in 1988 made the
> scandal part of popular culture, supplementing many books written about it.
>
> The American League-winning Chicago White Sox headed into the World
> Series of 1919 as heavy favorites over the NL’s Cincinnati Reds, but the
> odds came down by the time the series started.
>
> That’s because heavy bets on the Reds had been placed with illegal
> bookmakers in the days before the best-of-nine series started, and
> rumors were spreading that a fix was in. The rumors proved true.
>
> While many of the details remain murky and debated a century later —
> including the extent to which players deliberately underperformed — it’s
> unquestioned that members of the White Sox took money from gamblers on
> the condition that they lose the series.
>
> A faction of White Sox players harbored hostility over their treatment
> by owner Charles Comiskey, although the team actually had one of the
> highest payrolls in the league. First baseman Chuck Gandil led them in a
> plan to accept thousands of dollars from gamblers tied to organize crime.
>
> Not all of the White Sox were in on the scheme, and they climbed back
> from a 4-1 series deficit by winning the next two games before
> succumbing 10-5 in the eighth game. (The players involved also
> reportedly became angry at failure to receive agreed-upon payments and
> abandoned the plot, at least temporarily, after the fifth game.)
>
> A grand jury that investigated in 1920 indicted eight players and five
> gamblers. Jackson was among those charged even though he batted .375 in
> the series and threw out five runners.
>
> A jury in August 1921 acquitted all eight players of anything criminal,
> but new baseball commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis nonetheless
> banned all eight from professional baseball for life based on the
> confessional statements from a number of them.
>
> One other fallout from the scandal — in lore at least — is what came to
> be known as the “Curse of the Black Sox.” The club did not win another
> American League pennant until 1959 and waited until 2005 for its next
> World Series title.
> Charlie Hustle’s baseball bets
> pete rose mlb betting
> Jun 17, 2017; Cincinnati, OH, USA; Cincinnati Reds former player Pete
> Rose speaks to the crowd during a ceremony unveiling his statue at Great
> American Ball Park. (David Kohl-USA TODAY Sports)
>
> Pete Rose’s stature as baseball’s all-time hits leader has made his
> gambling-related fall from grace a compelling story for decades for both
> his defenders and critics.
>
> Rose was widely heralded in 24 seasons as a player, but his downfall
> came as manager of the Cincinnati Reds in 1989. An MLB investigation
> found he had been regularly betting on baseball games in violation of
> league rules for years, including placing wagers on his own team.
>
> Rose agreed to an indefinite ban from the sport in 1989 while
> maintaining he was not guilty of baseball betting. His denials continued
> for years until admitting in a 2004 autobiography, My Prison Without
> Bars, that he was a frequent bettor, though never against his own team.
>
> “I bet on my team to win every night because I loved my team, I believed
> in my team,” Rose told broadcaster Dan Patrick in 2007.
>
> He applied unsuccessfully for reinstatement from the league ban in 1992,
> 1998, and 2015. In 2020, in the wake of the Houston Astros cheating
> scandal and MLB’s growing marriages with legal sportsbooks, he filed a
> new appeal. He and supporters hope that a reprieve from MLB would enable
> him to win induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame, which bars anyone
> on MLB’s ineligibility list.
> NCAA hoops scandal casts a wide net
>
> No one hears much about City College of New York basketball these days,
> and there’s a reason for that.
>
> The school was at the heart of college basketball’s biggest scandal
> ever, at a time when it was coming off a feat never matched before or
> since: CCNY won both the NCAA and NIT (the bigger prize at the time)
> tournaments in 1950.
>
> An investigation in 1950-51 of organized crime involvement in paying
> players to shave points found a total of 33 players at seven schools had
> participated between 1947 and 1950. The scheme had its genesis in
> point-shaving first done at summer league games played by collegiate
> players in the Catskills.
>
> Three stars of CCNY’s national title team were involved, and the case
> led the school to deemphasize sports, with its basketball program
> eventually settling at the Division III level.
>
> But the conspiracy also tainted the programs at New York University,
> Long Island University, Manhattan College, Bradley University, the
> University of Toledo, and even Adolph Rupp’s University of Kentucky,
> which was forced by the NCAA to cancel its 1952-53 season.
>
> As in most such cases, the players cooperated with prosecutors and
> received no prison time for their involvement, while the illegal
> bookmakers and their gambling associates went to jail.
> Foul called on NBA ref
>
> After officiating nearly 800 games over 14 seasons in the NBA, Tim
> Donaghy’s career came to an end in July 2007 due to gambling-related
> payments that may or may not have affected the outcome of games.
>
> He pleaded guilty a month after his suspension to federal charges of
> conspiracy to engage in wire fraud and transmitting wagering information
> through interstate commerce. He was sentenced to 15 months in a prison
> and halfway house and fined $500,000.
>
> Donaghy was involved in a scheme with two longtime suburban Philadelphia
> acquaintances who were looking to wager on games he was officiating. He
> would supply them information, they would place bets based on it, and he
> would be paid off if the game resulted in their desired outcome.
>
> It was never proven that Donaghy tailored his calls to favor a certain
> team or point total, but he was found to have himself bet on many of the
> games he was working.
>
> He has alleged multiple times that other referees are influenced by the
> NBA to favor certain game outcomes or star players with the intent of
> maximizing TV ratings and revenue, but no evidence of it has been found
> and the league has denied it.
>
> David Stern, commissioner at the time, called the Donaghy case “a wakeup
> call that says you can’t be complacent.” The league subsequently took
> multiple steps intended to more closely monitor officiating.
> Costly Boston College point-shaving
>
> Boston College basketball player Rick Kuhn’s legacy is attached not to
> what he did on the court, but what happened to him in court.
>
> Unlike most athletes connected to gambling-related sports corruption,
> Kuhn, a forward on the Golden Eagles’ 1978 team, declined to cooperate
> with prosecutors. It cost him 28 months of his life, the portion he
> served of a 12-year prison sentence.
>
> Kuhn was at the center of an arrangement with shady acquaintances from
> his hometown in suburban Pittsburgh to receive payment for shaving
> points in games on which they would bet. He enlisted at least one
> teammate to help.
>
> In an intriguing twist, the Pittsburgh acquaintances had a connection to
> Henry Hill, the character played by Ray Liotta in Goodfellas, and they
> enlisted him to help finance the scheme. The conspiracy was exposed by
> Hill two years after it occurred when he became a federal informant due
> to connection to far bigger crimes — drug trafficking and the Lufthansa
> heist at Kennedy Airport in New York City.
>
> In a still more interesting twist, the scheme became costly for the
> gamblers, including Hill’s organized crime pal Jimmy Burke. Their first
> eight games involving bets against Boston College resulted in four wins,
> two losses and two pushes. They put their largest sum of money yet on a
> ninth game, Holy Cross vs. the Golden Eagles, and when BC covered the
> point spread, the angry gamblers abandoned the scheme.
>
> Nearly two decades later, Boston College athletics suffered another
> stain when 13 members of the 1996 football squad were suspended for
> betting on sports, including two who bet against their own team in a
> game vs. Syracuse.
> The Golden Boy and Mongo
>
> Paul Hornung and Alex Karras did not fall into the category of corrupt
> point-shaving, but their status as NFL stars made their
> gambling-connected suspensions for the entirety of 1963 a major story.
>
> Hornung had been a Notre Dame Heisman Trophy winner and first overall
> draft pick by the Green Bay Packers who was named NFL MVP in 1961.
>
> Karras was established by 1963 as one of the top defensive linemen in
> the league, a colorful Detroit Lions tackle who would make four Pro
> Bowls in a 13-year career.
>
> But both of them liked to gamble, including wagers on football games in
> violation of NFL policy. The bets were no more than hundreds of dollars
> and were never against their own teams, but Commissioner Pete Rozelle
> made an example of the two stars by banning them for a full season.
>
> “This sport has grown so quickly and gained so much of the approval of
> the American public that the only way it can be hurt is through
> gambling,” Rozelle said at the time.
>
> Karras, who would receive additional celebrity status years later as an
> actor who knocked out a horse in Blazing Saddles, supposedly made light
> of the suspension when a referee asked him to pick heads or tails for a
> pre-game coin toss in 1964.
>
> “I’m sorry, sir, I’m not permitted to gamble,” he reportedly said.
> Waving goodbye to the Green Wave
>
> After Tulane University’s 1984-85 basketball team was embroiled in a
> gambling-related scandal, it didn’t just get Division III status like
> CCNY. The school shut the program down for the rest of the decade.
>
> That came after five players were found to have accepted cash and/or
> cocaine from a group of New Orleans gamblers that wanted them to shave
> points for multiple games that year.
>
> In the two games, Tulane, a so-so team, lost to Memphis State by 11 as a
> 6-point underdog and only beat Southern Mississippi by 1 as a 9-point
> favorite. The conspiracy was discovered due to a suspicious level of
> betting done by Tulane students in Las Vegas at the time.
>
> The scheme attracted high notoriety in part because of the alleged
> participation of John “Hot Rod” Williams, who was then the No. 2
> all-time scorer for Tulane. He was acquitted of charges, however, and
> went on to play for 13 years in the NBA.
>
> It wasn’t just the gambling scheme that led to suspension of Green Wave
> basketball. While head coach Ned Fowler had no knowledge of the point
> shaving, he admitted that he and assistants had been paying players.
> The Northwestern double whammy
>
> Student-athletes at Northwestern University had a rare parlay going in
> 1994-95: Members of both the football and basketball teams were shaving
> points, though they weren’t necessarily very good at it.
>
> Two members of the Wildcats’ basketball team admitted to being in
> cahoots with two gamblers, and all four of them ended up with short
> prison terms.
>
> These basketball players were different from the typical point-shavers
> who try to win their games but by a lesser margin than the point spread.
> Northwestern was a bad team — always an underdog — and players Dewey
> Williams and Kenneth Dion Lee had agreed to try to lose by more points
> than the spread.
>
> It backfired when the gamblers involved put heavy action on Michigan as
> a 25½-point favorite over Northwestern, and the Wildcats came within 17.
> (The players didn’t get paid off for that one.)
>
> On the 1994 football team, none of the players were alleged to have
> conspired with bookies or other gamblers. Three starters were charged
> with perjury, however, for having bet against their own team with a
> campus bookie and then denying it to a grand jury.
>
> Even though Northwestern had those players supposedly undermining its
> chances in a contest as a 15-point underdog against Ohio State, the
> Wildcats nearly pulled off an upset in a 17-15 loss.
> ASU point-shaving that went amiss
>
> A lot of people aware of an Arizona State University men’s basketball
> point-shaving scheme in 1993-94 made a lot of money … until they didn’t.
>
> Star senior guard Stevin Smith, who was sentenced to a year’s
> imprisonment under a plea bargain, was the key player involved in a plan
> that evidently grew in bettor awareness over the course of four games.
>
> More and more money poured into Las Vegas sportsbooks against ASU, so
> much that it not only affected point spreads but raised red flags at
> casinos and got the attention of regulators and the FBI.
>
> By the time the Sun Devils played Washington on March 5, 1994, a line
> that started with ASU as a 12-point favorite had been bet down to 3. The
> sportsbooks were delighted when Arizona State won by 18, costing the
> illicit gamblers oodles of cash.
>
> In a confessional piece under his byline in 1998, Smith explained how he
> made the plan work, at least for the first few games: “Yes, I shaved
> points, but I didn’t do it by throwing wild passes or taking horrible
> shots or missing free throws. Those are the things everyone looks for.
> Because I wasn’t that obvious, no one suspected me. … I shaved points
> playing defense.”
> Holy Toledo, another two-sport scandal!
>
> As in the Northwestern case of the 1990s, both the basketball and
> football programs at the University of Toledo were tarnished by the
> willingness of their players in 2005-06 to collaborate against their teams.
>
> Two figures tied to the Detroit organized crime world led the scheme and
> got hefty prison sentences, while seven former football or basketball
> players pleaded guilty to conspiracy, having accepted money or gifts to
> alter their play or provide inside information.
>
> In one of the more blatant examples of unsuccessful point-shaving,
> running back Quinton Broussard admitted that he had received $500 and
> intentionally fumbled at the goal line in the first half of the 2005
> GMAC Bowl.
>
> The fumble didn’t help his betting cohorts. Favored Toledo easily beat
> the point spread with a dominating second half that resulted in a 45-13
> victory.
> Art Schlichter’s death spiral
>
> Former Ohio State star quarterback Art Schlichter’s gambling notoriety
> is a little different, in that he was never accused of conspiring to fix
> games or do anything wrong on the football field.
>
> He was a longtime compulsive gambler, however, whose out-of-control
> betting resulted in numerous problems that landed him behind bars
> repeatedly and garnered far more attention than anything he was able to
> achieve in football.
>
> Schlichter, currently in prison for a 2011 conviction for bank and wire
> fraud and other offenses, was an OSU star from 1978-81 who was drafted
> fourth overall in the NFL.
>
> He was already a compulsive gambler by then, however. He was suspended
> by the NFL for the 1983 season after revealing his sports betting to the
> FBI, whose help he sought against bookmakers who had been threatening
> him over his unpaid debts.
>
> Debts, con schemes, and fake checks connected to his gambling losses
> would become a sordid running tale for Schlichter, who played just three
> unsuccessful years in the NFL as one of its most notable draft busts
> ever. He has been in and out of prison since 1995.
> Gary Rotstein
> Gary Rotstein
>
> Gary is a longtime journalist, having spent three decades covering
> gambling, state government, and other issues for the Pittsburgh
> Post-Gazette, in addition to stints as managing editor of the Bedford
> (Pa.) Gazette and as a reporter for United Press International and the
> Middletown (Conn.) Press. Contact Gary at gary@usbets.com.

On 9/2/22 02:34, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

https://www.theversed.com/80160/dark-past-the-evil-prince-of-baseball-hal-chase/

Dark Past: The Evil Prince of Baseball Hal Chase
Bryan Zarpentine
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Bryan Zarpentine
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Given the long history of baseball, it’s only natural that some
noteworthy players will get lost in the shuffle. In the case of Hal
Chase, nicknamed Prince Hal, that may actually be a good thing. On one
hand, he’s regarded by some as perhaps the best defensive first baseman
to ever play the game, which is certainly worth remembering. But on the
other hand, he was accused many times of actions that disgraced the
game, making it difficult to gauge just where he fits into the history
of baseball.

In terms of ability, Chase was in a league of his own, at least
defensively. He was known for playing far off the base, something few
first baseman in the modern era have been brave enough to do outside of
Keith Hernandez. He could overcompensate for bad throws from his
infielders and had a knack for making difficult plays look casual. Chase
was also a fine hitter, even winning a batting title in 1916 toward the
end of his career.

“(Lou) Gehrig had more power and could run. In time he became a good
major league first baseman. But the Prince (Hal Chase) was also a very
fine hitter who played his entire career before the ball was juiced up.
He couldn’t run, he could fly.

“And aside from Ty Cobb, he was the best baserunner I ever saw.
Fielding, are you kidding? Prince Hal was the greatest fielding first
baseman that ever played. He was worth the price of admission just to
watch him toe-dance around first base and pick those wild throws out of
the dirt.”

Babe Ruth

Chase was one of the first true stars to play for the franchise that
would become the New York Yankees, known as the Highlanders when he made
his debut in 1905. Naturally, he had prima donna tendencies, at one
point refusing to play for a new manager. Chase would sometimes threaten
to remain in the California League, where he played during the
offseason, as a way to coerce the organization to do what he wanted. But
with money being short in the California League, Chase would always
return majors.

Unfortunately, Chase’s issues extended beyond being critical of the
team’s choice of manager. As early as 1910, there were whispers of Chase
“laying down,” implying that he was throwing games and betting on
baseball. The allegations were made by Highlanders manager George
Stallings, which upset Chase. But because Chase had a close relationship
with team owners, he was able to talk them into firing Stallings and
making Chase player-manager of the Highlands.

Chase’s stint as manager only lasted 146 games, during which there was
suspicion from other managers that he was trying to throw games because
he was betting on baseball. However, Chase was also battling injuries at
the time, which could have hindered his performance. As a result, there
was little evidence that he was actually throwing games. By 1913, the
Yankees decided that it was easier to simply trade Chase than continue
to have him a part of the team amidst all the speculation that he was
“laying down.”

“No other player in baseball history was so richly praised for his
defensive skill – no one. His brilliance with the glove is easier to
document than Ty Cobb’s temper, Hack Wilson’s drinking or Walter
Johnson’s fastball; it is all over the literature of the sport.”

Bill James, baseball historian

After the Yankees traded him, Chase would go on to play for four other
teams. Rumblings of betting on baseball and fixing games followed him
everywhere. In 1918, he was accused of offering bribes to both teammates
and opponents in hope that they would influence games on which he had
wagered money.

In fact, a copy of a check for $500 (nearly $8,000 today) that a gambler
allegedly gave to Chase was sent to National League President John
Heydler. However, Heydler could still not gather enough evidence or
witness testimony to prove without a doubt that Chase had offered
players bribes and was intentionally throwing games.

There were even rumors that Chase was the middleman in the infamous
Black Sox scandal, helping to connect the guilty players with those in
the gambling world. He was actually indicted by a Chicago grand jury for
his role in the scandal, but because the extradition was handled
improperly, the state of California refused to hand him over to
authorities in Chicago.

However, he never played in the majors following the 1919 scandal.
Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis never officially banned him from
the game. But the environment Landis created to dispel gambling and
game-fixing from baseball made it impossible for someone with Chase’s
reputation to find a job in the majors.

“I did not want to be what I then called a ‘welcher.’ I had been
involved in all kinds of bets with players and gamblers in the past, and
I felt this was no time to run out… I’d give anything if I could start
in all over again… I was all wrong, at least in most things, and my best
proof is that I am flat on my back, without a dime… I never bet against
my own team”

Hal Chase

Even when his time in the majors was finished and the Prince continued
to play in the minors, rumors of throwing games followed him around.
Ultimately, he was charged with 402 errors in his career, giving him a
below-average fielding percentage. However, it’s believed that many were
on purpose in an effort to throw games.

Late in his life, Chase showed remorse for gambling on baseball. He also
admitted to knowing about the Black Sox scandal ahead of time but denied
he was involved in any way. However, for better and for worse, his
contributions to baseball as both an outstanding player and a
disgraceful gambler and game-thrower, are largely forgotten in the
history of the game.
Bryan Zarpentine
Bryan Zarpentine
Contributor
Bryan Zarpentine is a freelance writer and editor who has a ridiculous
amount of sports-related articles published all over the Internet. He is
a graduate of Syracuse University, a school that's better than most
schools, especially Georgetown.

On 9/2/2022 2:34 AM, Popping Mad wrote:
> Someone paid off Lux in todays game. He made it sourt of obvious in the
> field

I doubt that he dropped it on purpose. All it did at that point of the
game was put the runner on.