Gambling in Sports. Legal or Illegal?
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Gambling in Sports. Legal or Illegal?
Gambling in sports is a very common thing in today’s generation. Although gambling is legal in casinos, gambling boats, and horse tracks should it be legal for players in Major League Baseball? There have been a few scandals in the sport of baseball where players have thrown games and gave up extra runs just to win a bet. That is why gambling by players is currently banned in MLB. However the commissioner and general managers of all teams are trying to get the ban lifted with exceptions. One of the exceptions, and possibly the biggest one is the betting players must have no ties to the game he or her bet on.
You may be thinking every American has the right to gamble if they are of age. My opinion is that is true but let me tell you about a few of the reasons Major League Baseball put a ban on gambling by players. Although gambling scandals have been a part of professional baseball since the sport's beginning, no scandal threatened the game's stature as "the national pastime" more than the revelations that eight members of the Chicago White Sox had conspired to throw the 1919 World Series. Termed the "Black Sox Scandal," the event will go down in history as one of the twentieth century's most notorious sports debacles. It started when 8 players of the Chicago White Sox were only making six thousand dollars a year which was extremely underpaid. They asked for raises and the team owner refused. In a act to get him back and to make money they took a bet from a well known Boston sports gambler named "Sport" Sullivan. In order for these eight players to received there money he
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was goin to bet against the White Sox to lose the World Series and the team would throw the series. Players made errors, swung at bad pitches in order to strike out, and pitchers were tippin there pitches, all to let the Reds win the series. The World Series is the most prestigous prize for players and teams to win and to throw a world...
Gambling in sports is a very common thing in today’s generation. Although gambling is legal in casinos, gambling boats, and horse tracks should it be legal for players in Major League Baseball? There have been a few scandals in the sport of baseball where players have thrown games and gave up extra runs just to win a bet. That is why gambling by players is currently banned in MLB. However the commissioner and general managers of all teams are trying to get the ban lifted with exceptions. One of the exceptions, and possibly the biggest one is the betting players must have no ties to the game he or her bet on.
You may be thinking every American has the right to gamble if they are of age. My opinion is that is true but let me tell you about a few of the reasons Major League Baseball put a ban on gambling by players. Although gambling scandals have been a part of professional baseball since the sport's beginning, no scandal threatened the game's stature as "the national pastime" more than the revelations that eight members of the Chicago White Sox had conspired to throw the 1919 World Series. Termed the "Black Sox Scandal," the event will go down in history as one of the twentieth century's most notorious sports debacles. It started when 8 players of the Chicago White Sox were only making six thousand dollars a year which was extremely underpaid. They asked for raises and the team owner refused. In a act to get him back and to make money they took a bet from a well known Boston sports gambler named "Sport" Sullivan. In order for these eight players to received there money he
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was goin to bet against the White Sox to lose the World Series and the team would throw the series. Players made errors, swung at bad pitches in order to strike out, and pitchers were tippin there pitches, all to let the Reds win the series. The World Series is the most prestigous prize for players and teams to win and to throw a world...