Sentence examples for baseball gamblers from inspiring English sources

In baseball, gamblers and fixers openly operated in big league cities with impunity, while club owners swept all rumours of corrupted games under the rug, lest the public lose faith in the national pastime.

At that time, the connection between baseball players and gamblers was that strong".

Then, in September, a grand jury was called to investigate various allegations of gamblers invading baseball.

By 1919, the influence of gamblers on baseball had been a problem for several years.

And if a modern golden age of fair play ever existed, which is just as doubtful, it was all over by 1919 when the Chicago White Sox colluded with gamblers to throw baseball's World Series.

The description of Savannah's father, a gambler and onetime baseball player, is expertly wrought, but it's a tangential part of this big, rambling novel.

(In an Internet poll following Jim Gray's aggressive interview of Pete Rose on NBC last October, 92percentt of fans said they wanted the convicted gambler back in baseball).

Even so, Rudy pleaded guilty last spring to extortion charges, which involved a loan that Johnny Green had made, an unlucky Russian gambler and a baseball bat.

Rose adds that there should have been a way for him to get help, but baseball "had no fancy rehab for gamblers like they do for drug addicts".

The most riveting letters to Wright are from Devlin, a player with the Louisville Grays who had been barred from baseball for life for conspiring with gamblers to fix games in 1877.

Banks bet on loans but do not own a piece of them, much as a gambler bets on a baseball game but does not own the team.