Major League Baseballs biggest black mark

Discussion in 'Sports' started by Native Vee, Sep 9, 2025.

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What was baseballs single biggest black eye?

  1. Black Sox Scandal

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    16.7%

  2. 1994 Strike

    1 vote(s)
    16.7%

  3. Segregation before 1947

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    16.7%

  4. PEDs

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    0.0%

  5. Cocaine scandal of the 70s-80s

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    33.3%

  6. Collusion of 1980s

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  7. Yankees-KC As shenanigans

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  8. Jerks (Cobb,Martin,D Allen,Durocher,McClain..)

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  9. Pete Rose

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  10. Hal Chase/Heinie Zimmerman

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  11. Mistreatment of J Robinson (Slaughter,Higby..)

    1 vote(s)
    16.7%

  12. Drunkenness of 19th Century players

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  13. Beanball wars and brawls

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%

  14. Other

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    0.0%
  1. Native Vee

    Native Vee Supporters HipForums Supporter

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    Basically,which person or incident did the most harm or was the most embarrassing for the sport?

    I would say PEDs .. But the cocaine thing wasnt good either......
     
    Native Vee, Sep 9, 2025
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  3. Beatniks

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    Personally the 1994 strike.
    We were season ticket holders and haven’t been to a game since.
    I was always a Tony Gwynn fan and he was flirting with batting 400 that year.
     
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  5. Toker

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    Moving the Dodgers out of Brooklyn.
    Had to move to California to see them...
     
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  7. Granite69

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    Black Sox scandal remains the gold standard for black marks in MLB history, IMO. PEDs are a distant second.

    I pick these two because each provably impacted the outcome of games. To that end, the Astros sign-stealing scandal of 2017 via electronic means was also a big one.
     
    Granite69, Sep 29, 2025
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