Is it possible that the Chicago White Sox were not the only team in Chicago that could have thrown a World Series?  According to a 1920 court deposition in the Chicago History Museum (as reported by the Associated Press), Eddie Cicotte (a player banned from baseball due to the Black Sox Scandal) said that a Cub or a number of Cubs were offered $10,000 to throw the 1918 World Series to the Boston Red Sox.  The Cubs lost the series 4 games to 2.

Cicotte did not name any names nor did he provide any details.

“It is interesting to me as a Cubs fan and a historian of Chicago that both teams could be involved in back-to-back years,” said Peter Alter, an archivist at the museum.

Eight members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox World Series team were banned for life from baseball for intentionally losing to the Cincinnati Reds.  The incident has since been known as the Black Sox Scandal.