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The Ballpark Guys are pleased to announce the Ballpark Guys 2000 Awards. The outstanding performances of the 2000 major-league season will be honored in the balloting conducted by a coterie of Ballpark Guys from around the United States and Canada. The 2000 awards mark the introduction of the Babe Ruth Award for the player of the year in each league. Other awards will be presented in all of the traditional categories, except Executive of the Year, which is a lame award.

1919 World Series Replay

Eight key members of the White Sox were implicated in a year-old gambling scandal and confessed that they threw the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Despite being acquitted in a court trial, the infamous eight were banned from baseball for life by The Game's first commissioner, Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis. This shameful episode would forever be known in baseball lore as the Black Sox Scandal.

We replayed the series and have posted the results.

Phil Rogers, Chicago Tribune