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For a sport and a fan base that once held itself out as the embodiment of the New England Ideal, it's scary to see the great game of baseball go to the dark side.

Several White Sox players confessed to deliberately losing the 1919 World Series. Although they later recanted, eight men were banned for life and the sport almost died.

This slick-fielding first baseman was also, unfortunately, an inveterate gambler and a well-known cheat.

Charlie Hustle has been banned from baseball for almost twenty years, and has almost no chance of ever being allowed back into the game.

Mickey Mantle had problems with alcohol, Pete Rose bet on baseball games, and Jason Giambi took performance enhancing substances. All received the Hutch Award.