Red Summer 1919 The Red Scare is about the period in the history of the United States immediately following WWI. The dates are approximately from the Armistice in November of 1918 to the collapse of hyperinflation in 1920. Within these two dates the country witnessed--not so much in rapid succession as concurrently--a deadly flu epidemic, a strike wave of unparallel proportions, harsh suppression in some cases of those strikes, race riots, hyper-inflation, mass round-ups and deportations of foreign …showed first 75 words of 737 total…

…showed last 75 words of 737 total…baseball for life. These eight men were the great” Shoeless” Joe Jackson, pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg, and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of the players who did not know of the game being thrown, thus later being made famous in the movie “Field of Dreams.” So the Black Sox got their name by throwing the series.