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The season after a group of White Sox players threw the 1919 World Series, Shoeless Joe Jackson met a perplexed young fan after testifying before a Chicago grand jury. Jackson was the A-Rod of his day, a slugger whose graceful swing Babe Ruth looked to model, and the scandal attracted a media horde, including a reporter who wrote that the boy asked:
"It ain't true, is it, Joe?"
"Yes, kid, I'm afraid it is," Jackson was said to have answered.
Years afterward, Jackson claimed it never happened, and many scholars say it was fabricated, the product of the lax journalistic standards of the day. Still, it became the iconic story of the Black Sox scandal, overshadowing the real news from that day: Jackson telling the Tribune he had confessed to the grand jury that he'd gotten stiffed by a teammate for the better part of the $20,000 he was due for being in on in the fix: "All I got was $5,000 that Lefty Williams handed me in a dirty envelope."
Fact or fable, the image of a heartbroken boy passed into baseball legend and lore as a metaphor for the mixture of disappointment and disbelief fans suffer when betrayed by wayward heroes. A prosecutor drew upon it in the 1921 trial of Jackson and seven teammates for conspiring with gamblers to fix the Series, telling the jury, according to the Trib's account: "The public, the team owners and even the small boy playing on the sandlots have been swindled."
With last week's suspensions of Alex Rodriguez and 12 other major leaguers for using performance-enhancing drugs, the Black Sox of 1919 have once again become the benchmark against which other sports scandals are measured. It's an oft-told tale, fodder for movies like "Eight Men Out" and "Field of Dreams," and novels like Bernard Malamud's "The Natural."
If players' sky-high salaries and the pressure to live up to superstar expectations were factors in the current doping scandal ? Rodriguez stands to lose almost $31 million if his 211-game suspension sticks ? Shoeless Joe and his teammates were tempted to cheat by meager salaries and the callous treatment many players felt they received. While Jackson made $6,000 in 1919 (nearly $81,000 in today's dollars), Williams received just $2,625 ($35,000 inflation-adjusted). And an alternate theory of the "Black Sox" label holds that team owner Charles Comiskey, a notorious tightwad, refused to pay even for cleaning players' uniforms.
Nevertheless, the White Sox, World Series winners two years earlier, were heavy favorites going into the 1919 contest with the Cincinnati Reds, the National League's champions. "It seems to me that I have seen the Sox outfielders throw more runners out at home than all the rest of the American league outfielders put together," wrote longtime umpire Bill Evans in a Tribune opinion piece that gave the Series edge to the Sox.
But the Series opened poorly for the Sox, which wasn't an accident, as it turned out. Chicago's star pitcher, Eddie Cicotte, started on the mound and hit the Reds' leadoff batter in the back, the signal that the dirty deal was on. The Sox lost 9-1.
Game 2 wasn't much better, a 4-2 Chicago loss, but the Sox won Game 3.
In Game 4, the plotters again took control. In the fifth inning, a Reds batter hit a single that Jackson fielded and heaved home to keep a runner from scoring, but Cicotte cut off the throw, ostensibly to keep the batter from advancing. "There wasn't any occasion for Cicotte to intercept the throw," manager William J. "Kid" Gleason later complained to a Tribune reporter. The batter "had no more intention of going to second than I have of jumping in the lake." The Sox lost 2-0, and the Reds had a 3-1 Series lead.
After several more questionable plays, the Reds clinched the championship in the eighth game (a best-of-nine Series that year). Of the final game, the Tribune noted: "They burned up the White Sox 10-5 on the anniversary of the day Mrs. O'Leary's cow burned up nine-tenths of Chicago forty-eight years ago."
Rumors of a fix began immediately. Faced with speculation that his players hadn't tried to win, Comiskey offered a $10,000 reward for information that the Series was thrown. True to form, he refused to pay several claimants, reportedly including Jackson's wife, who ostensibly sent a letter because Shoeless Joe was illiterate. But the rumors continued, prompting a criminal investigation.
The tainted players returned for the 1920 season, and the team played well.
But in the fall, three players ? Jackson, Cicotte and Williams ? signed confessions, which went mysteriously missing. According to the Trib, the confessions were bought for $10,000 by Arnold Rothstein, the big-time New York gambler who had bankrolled the whole scheme. Evidently pleased that his name wasn't mentioned in the confessions, Rothstein tried to peddle them to the media, including the Tribune, which reported the offer to the state's attorney's office.
Comiskey then suspended those three players and five others believed to be part of the conspiracy, even though the team was in a pennant race. The Sox narrowly missed going to another World Series even without them.
When the trial finally opened in 1921 it was a circus, even by Chicago standards. A special prosecutor appointed to represent organized baseball joined the state's team. Rothstein didn't show, successfully arguing that he wasn't the same Arnold Rothstein named in the court papers. Over the defense's objections, the judge who had taken the missing confessions was allowed to describe them to the jury, though the players alternately said they had repudiated them or been promised immunity. Comiskey went ballistic when a defense attorney accused him of "contract jumping" ? leaving a team in the lurch for a few extra bucks ? during his playing days.
Surprisingly, the jury acquitted them, but Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, newly appointed baseball commissioner, confirmed Comiskey's suspensions ? permanently banning eight players from baseball. By that point the team's fortunes had tanked. They wouldn't be contenders for years to come.
Most of the banished players faded into obscurity, but Jackson's persistently loyal fans continued to petition for his reinstatement, even after he died in 1951. It was argued that he wasn't one of the players who organized the fix, that he was a simple country boy who didn't realize what he was getting into, that he clearly didn't play poorly (he hit .375 in the Series and committed no errors). His partisans have argued that a man deserves to be remembered for his best, not his worst, and that he deserves the benefit of the doubt. It was in that spirit that Tribune sports columnist Dave Condon placed a wreath on Shoeless Joe's grave in 1979.
Condon wrote that when the florist asked what the card should say, he suggested:
"Maybe it wasn't so, Joe."
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A massive manhunt that spanned 1,000 miles ended in gunfire in the Idaho wild late Saturday afternoon -- shots that ended the life of the family friend who was suspected of abducting 16-year-old Hannah Anderson and killing her mother and brother.
The teenager was rescued near Morehead Lake, Idaho, where an FBI tactical agent killed her alleged kidnapper, James DiMaggio, around 5:20 p.m (7:20 p.m. ET), authorities said.
"It's now healing time," Brett Anderson, Hannah's father, said in a message to CNN.
Hannah Anderson had last been seen in San Diego County, California, at her cheerleading practice August 3. The bodies of her mother, Christina Anderson, and 8-year-old brother, Ethan, were found the next day about 45 miles east in DiMaggio's Boulevard house; lab tests were needed to identify the boy because his remains were so badly charred.
That horror spurred a manhunt, which turned to central Idaho after a telling tip from a horseback rider and the discovery of DiMaggio's blue Nissan Versa in the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness, about 15 miles outside Cascade, Idaho.
By Saturday morning, there were more than 250 law enforcement agents on site scouring 300 square miles of rough terrain.
By late Saturday afternoon, they'd accomplished their first mission: finding DiMaggio and his alleged captive.
The pair's campsite was first spotted from the air, then law enforcement personnel moved in on the ground, said San Diego County Sheriff Bill Gore. He said that there had been a "confrontation," though authorities speaking a short time later in Idaho declined to say whether there had been a shootout.
However the scene unfolded, it ended with an FBI tactical agent fatally shooting the suspected murderer and kidnapper.
"Obviously we would have liked for Mr. DiMaggio to surrender and face justice in the court of law," Gore said. "But that's not going to be the case."
Saga starts in California, ends in Idaho
The suspect's car was found after a man on horseback reported he had a brief conversation with two campers in the Idaho wilderness on Wednesday.
The horseback rider was not aware of the manhunt at the time, but he called the Amber Alert tip line after he saw a news account that night and realized the pair matched the description of DiMaggio and Hannah Anderson, according to Ada County, Idaho, sheriff's office spokeswoman Andrea Dearden.
The rider's impression was that the pair "seemed odd," though he wasn't alarmed, she said.
"They did speak and exchange pleasantries. I don't think there was a lot of information exchanged," Dearden said. "He left the conversation believing they were camping in the area."
The rider said the man and girl were on foot, hiking with camping gear, Dearden said.
DiMaggio's car was found unoccupied Friday -- hidden by brush and its license plate removed -- spurring authorities to intensify their search in that area even further.
This massive effort included law enforcement personnel from a host of federal, state and local agencies, with Dearden saying they'd "use every single resource possible." Still, despite the numbers, they faced a daunting task given the expansive, rugged nature of the area.
Ultimately, DiMaggio was spotted and killed not far from where he left his car, according to Dearden.
His alleged captive didn't appear to have suffered significant physical injuries, though she was nonetheless helicoptered from the scene to a hospital, the sheriff's spokeswoman said.
"Hannah is safe, and that was our first priority from the very beginning," Valley County, Idaho, Sheriff Patti Bolen said.
She should be reunited Sunday morning with her father in Idaho, according to Gore.
In his text to CNN, Brett Anderson admitted to feeling a range of emotions upon hearing of his daughter's rescue soon after his wife and son's death.
"I am nervous excited saddened 4 my wife and son and worried what my daughter has been through," he wrote.
Witness: DiMaggio had crush
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NAIROBI (Reuters) - Kenya will find out who or what was responsible for a fire that destroyed parts of the capital's international airport, President Uhuru Kenyatta said on Friday as authorities scrambled to return east Africa's transport hub to normal operations.
Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, sub-Saharan Africa's fourth busiest airport, opened to all international flights on Friday for the first time since Wednesday's blaze but there was chaos at a makeshift terminal.
The fire gutted the cavernous arrivals hall and damaged some of the departures area, forcing the airport authorities to handle overseas passengers through a tiny domestic terminal, while domestic flights flew out of the cargo terminal.
"We want to find out who was responsible and why and we'll establish if anyone was culpable, including for gross negligence," Kenyatta told reporters at the airport, where parts of the wreckage still smoldered.
Officials say it is too early to say if arson or an accident was to blame. The Kenyan media has criticized the authorities for being slow to respond to the fire amid embarrassing reports that some first responders looted the airport as it burned.
Whether the fire deals a crushing blow to Kenya's reputation as a regional gateway depends on how quickly the airport can return to handling more than 16,000 passengers a day, analysts say.
Kenyatta said a temporary terminal with a capacity of 2.5 million people - or 6,850 people per day - would be constructed within weeks while the authorities would try to fast-track the construction of a new terminal due to open in March.
On Friday, long queues and a lack of information frustrated many passengers.
"I have two (medical) machines in my body that make my body work and I am having to go through this," complained American tourist Reba Harrison.
(Reporting by Ben Makori and Richard Lough; Editing by Michael Roddy)
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LOS ANGELES (LALATE) ? The Dance Fire Map 2013 spread Wednesday as the California wildfire prompted Orleans, CA evacuations. The Dance Fire is located near Camp Creek Road and is causing evacuations of some town residents near Highway 96.
The latest news update on the Dance Fire Map 2013 was indicated today July 31, 2013. The fire remains near Orleans, CA, reports Incident Commander Duane Franklin. The fire is being battled by roughly five hundred personnel but is still at only twenty-five percent containment. The fire had reached six hundred fifty acres overnight. But officials believe that they might reach full containment by noon today.
The fire which started Monday afternoon is prompting some traffic. Last night officials told news that ?Traffic restored to Highway 96. NorCal Team 2 assumed command of the fire at 6:00 p.m. tonight.? They added that ?Evacuation order for portions of Orleans will be lifted this evening or early tomorrow at the latest.? Evacuees were being sent to Junction Elementary School, 98821 California 96, Somes Bar. But officials indicated that some resident in and near Orleans were under evacuation orders. Meantime the Karuk Tribe?s evacuation center was set up on Highway 96?s Department of Natural Resources offices.
The fire was being advanced by 96 degree temperatures, humidity levels near eighteen percent and winds blowing southeast at 9 mph. Officials remained concerned about ?Fire mostly smoldering and creeping. No major runs today. Vast majority of acreage was during the first operational period.? For the latest fire map click HERE.
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The star stockpicker remained bullish on Google Inc and on Tesla Motors Inc's "disruptive technology and superior business model."
"Reflective of the company's slowing growth profile, Apple moved from the fund's top position a year ago to the third spot as we reduced our stake in the company," Danoff said in his monthly commentary for investors. He runs the $94 billion Contrafund for Fidelity Investments in Boston.
Danoff has been trimming his stake in Apple since last year. Google is now his largest holding at 6 percent of net assets. Danoff also said he increased his position in electric car maker Tesla, "a firm we believed was fundamentally reengineering the automobile for the first time in decades."
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