The worst of the eight, with the aid of the gamblers organized the whole fix. As I see it there is no excuse for this man for what he did, he was not preyed upon, he helped set it up.

As the organizer of the fix, he deserves the most blame, but not as much as Comiskey.

The ringleader among the players who fixed the 1919 World Series, Gandil was a greedy, angry man who wanted a last payday before he retired from baseball. An above average player, he made a wheelbarrow load of errors during the series, including a baserunning gaffe that was evident to everyone in the park. As what passed for the brains of the outfit that tanked the series he deserves the calumny that came his way. A disgrace.