As despicable and damaging to the integrity and almost-sacrosanct nature of baseball at the time the Black Sox scandal was understandable, I mean lets not pretend to excuse the reasons why those White Sox players decided to throw the World Series into of continuing to play and compete legitimately for a championship their owner didnt respect or pay them decently for. Their owner, Charles Comiskey, was notoriously cheap, frugal who went out of his way to undercut, underpay his top-notch players, hitters, relievers, even managers. He refused to wash their home/away uniforms until they nearly boycotted in forcing him to do so. He siphoned off money from each players bonuses to pay for their winning champagnes every year instead of paying for it himself, he agreed he'd pay one of his top pitchers like a $10,000 bonus if he could win 30 games in 1919, then he ordered the White Sox manager to deliberately hold him out the last few weeks of that season when he was at 29 to prevent him earning that bonus.