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I was born with a special gift.

The ability to mentally transform any situation

into the worst case scenario in my own brain.

My therapist calls my gift catastrophizing.

And that's why I'm uniquely qualified to scrutinize and analyze history's greatest

disasters and find out who's to blame.

They say history repeats itself.

Not on my watch.

My name is Rebecca Delgado Smith,

and I am The Alarmist.

Hey everyone, thanks for tuning into The Al alarmist, a comedy podcast where we discuss

history's greatest tragedies and figure out who's to blame. Today we're going to be

talking about the Black Sox scandal of 1919.

Here's what you need to know.

In the early fall of 1919, the Chicago White Sox headed to the World Series to play against the Cincinnati Reds.

Based on their record that year, the White Sox were undeniably the better team and the predicted

winners. But before the series began two different groups of gamblers

struck a deal with the White Sox first basement Arnold Chick Gandall and seven other teammates to throw the series in exchange for a hundred thousand dollars total.

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