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June 24 to July 21, 2006
Image:1919 blacksox.jpg The 1919 Major League Baseball season concluded with the 1919 World Series, contested by the Chicago White Sox, pictured, of the American League and the Cincinnati Reds of the National League. Having compiled a regular season record of 88-52, the White Sox were installed as favorites to win the best-of-nine-games series by most bookmakers. Eight players, though, apparently colluded with gamblers to fix the series in exchange for money, and the White Sox lost the series in eight games. In the wake of the so-called Black Sox Scandal, team owners established the office of Commissioner of Baseball and installed federal judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis as the league's first chief executive. Landis banned the players, including outfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson and starting pitcher Eddie Cicotte, from the Major Leagues for life; none of the banned players has been permitted to be a candidate for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.

May 27 to June 24, 2006
Image:Thomson 19511003.JPG On October 3, 1951, New York Giants outfielder Bobby Thomson hits a home run off Brooklyn Dodgers pitcher Ralph Branca to win the third and deciding game of the teams' pennant playoff series, 5-4, for the Giants, who had trailed the Dodgers by 13 games in the standings on August 11. The Polo Grounds hit came to be known as the shot heard 'round the world.

March 4 to May 27, 2006
Image:Christy Mathewson Baseball.jpg Christy Mathewson of the New York Giants

December 24, 2005 to March 4, 2006
Image:Rodriguez3.JPG MVP Alex Rodriguez awaits a pitch on September 13, 2005.

May 27 to December 24, 2005
Rafael Palmeiro at bat during Spring Training, 2005.