Anyone interested in this needs to listen to cd of The Glory of Their Times, the part with Smokey Joe Wood. This is discussed, Wood does a 180 on it as he's talking, and he explains what they did, he was in on it.
Also, the Al Stumpf book on Cobb discusses this matter.
The Fix is in: A History of Baseball Gambling and Game Fixing Scandals, by Daniel E. Ginsburg. A must read book, if you're even remotely thinking that Pete Rose should be reinstated.
Dutch Leonard ignored the subpoena, I think; he made some comment about not wanting to go to Chicago, people had been known to have gone there and never be heard from again...
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