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Claude "Lefty" Williams
The White Sox's No. 2 starter behind Cicotte, recruited into the fix along with Jackson. Williams lost three games in the 1919 Series — still a Series record — including the decisive Game Eight, after which contemporary accounts say he was threatened to make sure the Series ended. He confessed to the grand jury in September 1920 (and later sought to walk that back). Acquitted in 1921, banned for life by Landis. Like Risberg, he appears on very few period cards.