- 1887
| Jul 16 | (Black Sox) "Shoeless" Joe Jackson black sox player (Say it aint so, Joe), is born. | Ref: 5 |
- 1919
| Sep 18 | (Black Sox) Arnold "Chick" Gandil, first baseman for the Chicago White Sox, meets with Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, a gambler, and tells him that the World Series can be bought. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 19 | (Black Sox) Charles "Swede" Risberg, shortstop, Fred McMullin, infielder, and Eddie Cicotte, pitcher, join Gandil in a plot to throw the World Series. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 20 | (Black Sox) "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, left fielder, George "Buck" Weaver, third baseman, Claude "Lefty" Williams, pitcher, Oscar "Happy" Felsch, center fielder, meet with Gandil, Risberg, McMullin and Cicotte to devise a plan. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 21 | (Black Sox) Cicotte runs into William "Sleepy Bill" Burns, a retired baseball player turned gambler, who expresses his interest in the fix. Burns asks Billy Maharg, an ex-fighter, to help him get the money together to pay the players. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 23 | (Black Sox) Burns and Maharg approach Arnold Rothstein, an infamous gambler of the time, and Abe Attell, his associate, to supply the money to fix the World Series. Rothstein turns them down. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 24 | (Black Sox) Attell notifies Burns that Rothstein has changed his mind (a lie) and will put up $100,000 but does not want his name mentioned. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 26 | (Black Sox) Sullivan approaches Rothstein separately with the same proposal as Burns and Maharg. Rothstein shows interest because he has more respect for Sullivan. He sends Nat Evans, his associate, to find out if the players can be bought. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 29 | (Black Sox) Rothstein sends $40,000 to be given to the players. Sullivan gives Gandil $10,000 and bets the rest on the series. Another $40,000 is placed in a safe at the Hotel Congress in Chicago to be paid out after the series. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 01 | (Black Sox) Cincinnati wins the first game of the World Series 9 to 1. That evening Charles Comiskey, Chicago White Sox Owner, and Kid Gleason, Chicago White Sox Manager, discuss rumors that the series may be fixed. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 02 | (Black Sox) Cincinnati wins the second game of the World Series 4 to 2. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 03 | (Black Sox) Chicago wins the third game of the World Series 3 to 0. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 04 | (Black Sox) $20,000 is delivered to Gandil. He divides it evenly among Risberg, Felsch, Williams and Jackson. Cincinnati wins the fourth game of the World Series 2 to 0. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 06 | (Black Sox) Cincinnati wins the fifth game of the World Series 5 to 0. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 07 | (Black Sox) Chicago wins the sixth game of the World Series 5 to 4. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 08 | (Black Sox) Chicago wins the seventh game of the series 4 to 1. That evening Williams, the starting pitcher in game 8, and his wife are threatened with physical harm by a man if Williams makes it past the first inning tomorrow. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 09 | (Black Sox) In the first inning of the eighth game, Williams gives up four consecutive hits and three runs. He is removed from the game. Cincinnati wins the game 10 to 5 and takes the championship. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 15 | (Black Sox) Comiskey releases a statement that if anyone knows about the possible fix of the World Series he will pay them $20,000. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 19 | (Black Sox) Reds beat White Sox, 5 games to 3 in 16th World Series. This series is known as the black sox scandal as 7 White Sox throw the series. | Ref: 5 |
| Dec 15 | (Black Sox) The New York World publishes an explosive article by Hugh Fullerton suggesting that the World Series was fixed. | Ref: 87 |
- 1920
| Sep 07 | (Black Sox) The Cook County Grand Jury convenes to investigate whether or not a game between the Chicago Cubs and the Philadelphia Phillies had been fixed on August 31. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 24 | (Black Sox) The attention of the grand jury turns to the 1919 World Series when New York Giants pitcher Rube Benton testifies that he knew the series was fixed and names Gandil, Felsch, Williams and Cicotte. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 27 | (Black Sox) An article appearing in the Philadelphia North American quote local gambler Bill Maharg saying he and former major league pitcher Billy Burns offered eight White Sox players $100,000 to throw the 1919 World Series. The team will become known as the Black Sox. | Ref: 1 |
| Sep 28 | (Black Sox) Eddie Cicotte confesses to the fix. Eight White Sox players are indicted. Comiskey sends a telegram notifying the players that they have been suspended indefinitely, causing the Sox pennant bid to collapse. | Ref: 87 |
| Sep 29 | (Black Sox) Joe Jackson calls the criminal court building and says he also wants to confess. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 01 | (Black Sox) Claude Williams confesses to his role in the scandal. Arnold Rothstein testifies before the grand jury and places the blame on Abe Attell. | Ref: 87 |
| Oct 27 | (Black Sox) Rothstein is exonerated of any blame in the scandal. | Ref: 87 |
- 1921
| Feb 14 | (Black Sox) The players and five indicted gamblers are arraigned and the defense files a petition for a bill of particulars to set forth the charges in detail. | Ref: 87 |
| Mar 13 | (Black Sox) Landis places all eight players on the ineligible list. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 05 | (Black Sox) Jury selection begins. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 15 | (Black Sox) The final juror is selected. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 18 | (Black Sox) The prosecution gives its opening remarks in the trial. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 23 | (Black Sox) The Illinois State Attorney's Office reveals that the confessions signed by Cicotte, Jackson and Williams are missing, along with the waivers of immunity. | Ref: 87 |
| Jul 29 | (Black Sox) Final arguments in the trial begin. The state asks for a sentence of five years in jail and a $2,000 fine for each person involved. | Ref: 87 |
| Aug 02 | (Black Sox) With the jurors lifting the men onto their shoulders, the eight White Sox players accused of throwing the 1919 World Series are acquitted by the jury in less than three hours. The next day, Commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis will say the overwhelming evidence clearly shows the Black Sox fixed the games with gamblers and all would be banned from playing professional baseball again. | Ref: 1 |
| Aug 03 | (Black Sox) Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis announces that he will banish the eight players from baseball for life, despite the acquittal. | Ref: 87 |
- 1922
| Jan 13 | (Black Sox) Buck Weaver applies unsuccessfully for reinstatement and remains banned for life due to allegations of throwing the 1919 World Series to the Reds along with seven other White Sox players. | Ref: 1 |
- 1923
| Apr 03 | 2 "Black Sox" sue White Sox (unsuccessfully) for back salary. | Ref: 5 |
- 1928
| Nov 06 | (Black Sox) Arnold Rothstein dies at age 46 from a gunshot wound to the abdomen. | Ref: 87 |
- 1932
| Jan 19 | (Black Sox) Shoeless Joe Jackson's appeal for re-instatement is denied by Commissioner Judge Landis. | Ref: 1 |
- 1934
| Jan 19 | (Black Sox) Kenesaw Mountain Landis denies Joe Jackson's appeal for reinstatement. | Ref: 5 |
- 1951
| Dec 05 | (Black Sox) Joe Jackson dies at age 62 in Greenville, SC. Former occupation – liquor store owner. | Ref: 87 |
- 1952
| Nov 21 | (Black Sox) Fred McMullin dies at age 61 in Los Angeles, CA. | Ref: 87 |
- 1956
| Jan 31 | (Black Sox) George Weaver dies of a heart attack at age 66, in Chicago, IL. Former occupation – drugstore owner. | Ref: 87 |
- 1959
| Nov 04 | (Black Sox) Claude Williams dies at age 66 in Laguna Beach CA. Former occupation – gardener and nursery owner. | Ref: 87 |
- 1964
| Aug 17 | (Black Sox) Oscar Felsch dies at age 73 in Milwaukee, WI. Former occupation – bartender. | Ref: 87 |
- 1969
| May 15 | (Black Sox) Eddie Cicotte dies at age 85 in Detroit, MI. Former occupation – game warden. | Ref: 87 |
- 1970
| Dec 13 | (Black Sox) Arnold Gandil dies at age 82 in Calistoga, CA. Former occupation – plumber. | Ref: 87 |
- 1975
| Nov 13 | (Black Sox) Charles Risberg dies at age 81 in Red Bluff, CA. Former occupation – dairy farmer. | Ref: 87 |
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The Chicago Black Sox Chronology