{"id":397725,"date":"2025-11-22T21:24:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/397725\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T21:24:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T21:24:13","slug":"the-mlb-betting-scandal-that-has-long-been-forgotten","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/397725\/","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":3,"featured_media":397726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[16759,1266,52950,1105,62,2632,2225,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-397725","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","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-unitedstates","17":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115595461649542859","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=397725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/397725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/397726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=397725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=397725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=397725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}