The structure housed the Cook County Criminal Courts for 35 years, and was the site of many legendary trials, including the Leopold and Loeb murder case and the Black Sox Scandal.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, baseball player, born July 16, 1888; closely associated with the Black Sox Scandal in 1919;
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Shoeless Joe Jackson is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame due to the Black Sox Scandal, when he and seven other players were accused of "throwing" the 1919 World Series.
Rothstein was portrayed by several actors in films: By Robert Lowery in the 1960, The Rise and Fall of "Legs" Diamond; by David Janssen in the 1961, King of the Roaring 20's - The Story of Arnold Rothstein (aka The Big Bankroll); by Michael Lerner in the 1988, Eight Men Out, based on the Black Sox Scandal; and by F. Murray Abraham, in the 1991 Mobsters.
Asinof's most famous book, Eight Men Out, painstakingly reconstructed the events of the Black Sox scandal that marred the World Series between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds in the same year that Asinof was born.
The Comiskeys were very conservative spenders (which many hypothesize to be the reason the Black Sox scandal even occurred) and it was not until 1958 that the family gave up majority ownership to Bill Veeck, who was an innovative marketer but lacked sufficient resources to compete with wealthier teams.
In the 1988 film Eight Men Out, about the Black Sox scandal, Kerr was portrayed by actor Jace Alexander.