Actual Bad Guys in the Baseball HALL OF FAME
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The Baseball Hall of Fame's Darkest Secrets: Cheaters, Jerks, Racists & Criminals in Cooperstown
The National Baseball Hall of Fame loves to present itself as a spotless shrine to the "purity" of the game, but the real history of Cooperstown is a lot messier than the plaques suggest. In this video we dig into the Hall of Fame's biggest skeletons: PED users and performance-enhancing cheaters who still got in, rule-breakers and sign-stealers, certified jerks, actual criminals, shady operators, controversial commissioners, and some of the most blatant racists in baseball history — all enshrined in the same building.
We cover Pud Galvin's bizarre 1889 "testosterone serum," the cocaine-fueled Pittsburgh Drug Trials of the 1980s, Carlos Beltran and the Astros sign-stealing scandal, 19th-century cheating legend King Kelly, the spitball grandfather clause, Ty Cobb's reputation as baseball's ultimate jerk, Walter O'Malley and the real story behind Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine, Bill Veeck and Eddie Gaedel, commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Bud Selig, the tax evasion case against Duke Snider and Willie McCovey, Eddie Collins' fake Jackie Robinson tryout, and the undeniable racism of George Weiss and Cap Anson.
If you think you know the clean, Ken Burns version of baseball history, this video is going to change that.
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Edit: Nvm it was a comment he made later in his life, now that I looked it up..that sucks.
Actual Bad Guys in the Baseball HALL OF FAME
The Game Ball
4,199 views
The Baseball Hall of Fame's Darkest Secrets: Cheaters, Jerks, Racists & Criminals in Cooperstown
The National Baseball Hall of Fame loves to present itself as a spotless shrine to the "purity" of the game, but the real history of Cooperstown is a lot messier than the plaques suggest. In this video we dig into the Hall of Fame's biggest skeletons: PED users and performance-enhancing cheaters who still got in, rule-breakers and sign-stealers, certified jerks, actual criminals, shady operators, controversial commissioners, and some of the most blatant racists in baseball history — all enshrined in the same building.
We cover Pud Galvin's bizarre 1889 "testosterone serum," the cocaine-fueled Pittsburgh Drug Trials of the 1980s, Carlos Beltran and the Astros sign-stealing scandal, 19th-century cheating legend King Kelly, the spitball grandfather clause, Ty Cobb's reputation as baseball's ultimate jerk, Walter O'Malley and the real story behind Dodger Stadium and Chavez Ravine, Bill Veeck and Eddie Gaedel, commissioners Bowie Kuhn and Bud Selig, the tax evasion case against Duke Snider and Willie McCovey, Eddie Collins' fake Jackie Robinson tryout, and the undeniable racism of George Weiss and Cap Anson.
If you think you know the clean, Ken Burns version of baseball history, this video is going to change that.
Subscribe for more deep dives into the real, unfiltered history of baseball and the Hall of Fame.
#MLB #BaseballHistory #HallOfFame #Cooperstown #Baseball