{"id":302211,"date":"2025-11-22T21:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302211\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:23:07","slug":"the-mlb-betting-scandal-that-has-long-been-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/302211\/","title":{"rendered":"The MLB betting scandal that has long been forgotten"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Usually, these kinds of anniversary stories have a nice, round number attached to them \u2014 25 years since, 50 years since, 100 years since. This one doesn\u2019t. This one notes a forgotten piece of baseball history that seems awfully relevant all of a sudden,\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, we remember Nov. 23, 1943.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Today, we remember the day when William D. Cox was thrown out of baseball by the sport\u2019s most famous hanging judge, Kenesaw Mountain Landis.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Who, you wonder, is William D. Cox?\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Usually, these kinds of anniversary stories have a nice, round number attached to them \u2014 25 years since,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302212,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[558],"tags":[64,63,21944,591,172643,1260,85,2136,735],"class_list":["post-302211","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-mlb","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-gambling","tag-mlb","tag-open-mike","tag-philadelphia-eagles","tag-sports","tag-sports-columnists","tag-sports-plus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302211","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302211"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302211\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302212"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302211"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302211"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302211"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}