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| The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame... is a series that examines the athletes, coaches, front office personnel and even fans who over the years have been blamed for either a team's failure, their individual failure, a bad trade, a bad draft pick, or the demise of a franchise. The shows begin by explaining why that individual or team has been blamed over the years and then it peels away the layers between fact and fiction and count down the Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame them. This fast-paced series is a mix of documentary storytelling and the entertaining elements that make countdown shows fun to watch. The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame the 1919 Chicago White Sox for "Throwing" the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds: 1. They Were Acquitted 2. Game Stats Are Inconclusive 3. Lack of a Whistleblower 4. Charles Comiskey 5. Rampant Corruption Host: Brian Kenny Producer: Jeff Dubinsky Cast: Nick Acocella . . . Himself Dave Anderson . . . Himself Eliot Asinof . . . Himself Furman Bisher . . . Himself Robert Burk . . . Himself Al Capone . . . Himself (archival footage) Gene Carney . . . Himself John Christgau . . . Himself Eddie Cicotte . . . Himself (archival footage) Charles Comiskey III . . . Himself William Cook . . . Himself Robert Creamer . . . Himself Marc Fisher . . . Himself David Fleitz . . . Himself Alma Gehre . . . Herself Steve Gehre . . . Himself Peter Golenbock . . . Himself Louis Hegeman . . . Himself Bob Hoie . . . Himself Ed Hotaling . . . Himself Jerome Holtzman . . . Himself Shoeless Joe Jackson . . . Himself (archival footage) Kenesaw Mountain Landis . . . Himself (archival footage) William Klingaman . . . Himself Leonard Koppett . . . Himself Jack Lang . . . Himself Guglielmo Marconi . . . Himself (archival footage) Dan Nathan . . . Himself Roberta Newman . . . Herself Mike Nola . . . Himself Daniel Okrent . . . Himself David Pietrusza . . . Himself Gerald Risberg . . . Himself Robert Risberg . . . Himself Kelly Boyer Sagert . . . Herself Victoria Sherrow . . . Herself Murray Sperber . . . Himself Irving Stein . . . Himself Studs Terkel . . . Himself John Thorn . . . Himself Jules Tygiel . . . Himself George Vass . . . Himself Ann Cipriano Venzon . . . Herself Fay Vincent . . . Himself Woodrow Wilson . . . Himself (archival footage) A production of ESPN, 2005 |
| Top Five Teasons You Can't Blame The 1919 White Sox for "Throwing" the World Series ESPN Classic Original Airdate: November 3, 2005 |