Which Chicago baseball team was the first to "throw" a World Series? (Hint: It may not have been the "Black Sox")

Eddie Cicotte

According to a 1920 deposition the Chicago Museum of History recently added to its Website, Eddie Cicotte, one of the Chicago White Sox players banned for life for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds, claimed the team got the idea from the Chicago Cubs, whose players took bribes to throw the Series the year before. In the deposition, Cicotte claims “the boys on the club” talked about how a Cub or a number of Cubs were offered $10,000 to throw the 1918 Series they lost 4-2 to the Boston Red Sox. Although most of the Cubs played extraordinarily well in that Boston series, the performance of outfielder Max Flack does raise some questions.