Displayed is a Chick Gandil "Black Sox" cut signature. Arnold "Chick" Gandil was the ringleader of the infamous eight 1919 Chicago White Sox World Series players who were banned for life by Baseball Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis for engaging in talks with gamblers where, to quote Landis, "the ways and means of throwing ball games were discussed." Eddie Cicotte, Lefty Williams, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver, Swede Risberg, Happy Felsch, and Fred McMullen were the other players implicated in the scandal in which the '19 World Series was allegedly fixed, giving a 5-3 victory margin in games to the Cincinnati Reds in the best-of-nine Series. Gandil, well-built at 6'2" and 195 lbs., was a real roughneck. He had been a miner and a sometime heavyweight boxer, and he had a rough demeanor. Before he made the Majors, he was accused of stealing $225 from the minor league Fresno team, an opponent of the Sacramento team on which he played, and allegedly he and Swede Risberg, on the 1917 Chicago White Sox, collected $45 from each of their teammates and paid off the Detroit Tigers to go easy on the White Sox, engaged in a tight pennant race, who won two doubleheaders against the Tigers that helped them win the pennant. After he was banned from Major League Baseball and affiliated minor leagues in so-called "organized baseball," Gandil played on "outlaw" and semi-pro teams for years. In his Major League seasons, he batted .277 lifetime. He also played for the Washington Senators and the Cleveland Indians and was regarded as a good fielder. The offered Gandil signature is on the return address portion (measuring 1.25x2.8") of an envelope that is filled out in his hand and signed by him. Gandil filled out his return address (a post office box in Calistoga, Calif.), and wrote his signature, both in blue ink. The signature looks to be 8-9/10. The cut signature has been encapsulated PSA/DNA Certified as "AUTHENTIC AUTO."

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