Charles “Swede” Risberg, tall, angular and quick with his fists, became a key figure as the Black Sox were beaten by the presumably inferior Cincinnati Reds.

FILE - This 1921 file photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, rear left, as Chicago White Sox players, Charles "Swede" Risberg, center left, and Arnold "Chick" Gandil, look on during the ...

FILE - This 1921 file photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, rear left, as Chicago White Sox players, Charles "Swede" Risberg, center left, and Arnold "Chick" Gandil, look on during the ...

Joe Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Buck Weaver, Claude "Lefty" Williams, Happy Felsch, Fred McMullin, Charles "Swede" Risberg, and Chick Gandil have all been removed from the permanently ineligible list ...

March 12, 1921 — Chicago White Sox pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude “Lefty” Williams, first baseman Chick Gandil, shortstop Charles “Swede” Risberg, third baseman Buck Weaver ...

Swede Risberg – Black Sox shortstop, banned for his role in the 1919 World Series conspiracy. 8. Buck Weaver – Black Sox third baseman, banned despite refusing payments, for not reporting the ...

All eight of the players -- featured in the 1988 movie "Eight Men Out" -- have been reinstated: Jackson, Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and ...

Jackson and seven other members of the 1919 White Sox were permanently banned from baseball, accused of taking bribes from gamblers to intentionally lose the World Series to the Cincinnati Reds.

Few could name the specifics that landed ‘‘Shoeless Joe’’ on MLB’s blacklist for 104 years, along with Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck ...