Upstairs, in the office of the baseball commission, Charles (“Swede”) Risberg, banned shortstop, told how Detroit threw a series of games to the Chicago White Sox in 1917. He spoke for an hour ...

Fueled seemingly by just one source, Black Sox scoundrel Swede Risberg, the Chicago Tribune ran a front-page story teasing deeper details of the squad that shall live in infamy — namely, ...