1912 T207 Recruit Eddie Cicotte

Eddie Cicotte

Ace of the 1919 White Sox and, with Chick Gandil, a primary mover in the fix. Cicotte went 29–7 with a 1.82 ERA that season, then hit Cincinnati leadoff man Morrie Rath with his second pitch of Game One — long told as the signal that the deal was on. He took a large advance before the Series and was among the first to confess to the grand jury on September 28, 1920, breaking the scandal open. Indicted, tried in Chicago in the summer of 1921, and acquitted by the jury on August 2, he was banned for life the next day by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis anyway. He never returned to Organized Baseball.