{"id":308954,"date":"2025-11-23T13:02:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308954\/"},"modified":"2025-11-23T13:02:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-23T13:02:10","slug":"the-mlb-betting-scandal-that-has-long-been-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/308954\/","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":308955,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[15363,363,102628,1239,99,362,358],"class_list":{"0":"post-308954","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-mlb","8":"tag-gambling","9":"tag-mlb","10":"tag-open-mike","11":"tag-philadelphia-eagles","12":"tag-sports","13":"tag-sports-columnists","14":"tag-sports-plus"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308954","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=308954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/308954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/308955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=308954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=308954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=308954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}