![](https://baseballegg.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/04/1919-black-sox-in-courtroom-370x250-1.png)
How gambling built baseball, and then almost destroyed it
What became known as the “Black Sox Scandal” rocked professional baseball. But it wasn’t an aberration in a sport that was otherwise clean. Baseball became America’s national pastime because of – and not in spite of – gambling.