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Mr. Kent i want to welcome you to cooperstown. I am the director here, david kent. We are very fortunate tonight to have an esteemed historian and writer who is not only an historian. He is very into baseball. That is a good combination. Right now, it is the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history, the black sox scandal, where numbers of the Chicago White sox were accused up during world series to the cincinnati reds. It brought about many changes in baseball, including getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that one is not a simple one. It is very complicated. So the title of tonights talk is called field of myths, 100 years after the black sox scandal, so it should be a fascinating talk. I am excited to welcome david. David we are gathered here on the eve of this years world series, and 100 years ago, who knew there was going to be another world series . Once that scandal was exposed, and trust in base
And judge and jury the life and times of the judge Kennesaw Mountain landis. Were very fortunate tonight to have an esteemed historian and awardwinning writer, who is not only an historian but hes very into baseball. So, its a good combination because right now its the 100th an verse of one of the most infamous scandals in baseball history. The black sox scandal where members of the Chicago White sox were accused of throwing the world series to the cincinnati reds. And it brought about many changes in baseball, including getting a commissioner and getting eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life. So but the story of that is not really a simple one. Its very complicated. So, the title of tonights talk is called field of myths 100 years after baseballs 1919 black sox scandal, finally separating the many myths from the reality. So this should be a fascinating talk. And i am excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker tonight. Well, thank you. [ applause ] yeah, wer
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Stocks and the stories making headlines on this thursday. Alix steel follows the latest Earnings Report from conagra. We begin with our senior markets correspondent julie hyman, and alibaba announcing plans to list its shares on the New York Stock Exchange. Julie, good afternoon. Good afternoon. There has been a heated battle between the nasdaq and nyse to win this prestigious listing which might be the largest ipo ever and certainly would be one of the largest tech listings on either of these exchanges. Click the New York Stock Exchange has indeed won this. It is now owned by intercontinentalexchange, or ice. At 160e is estimated billion. It would be behind ipm and oracle among Tech Companies listed on the nyse. There is a lot of talk about the importance to either of these exchanges in winning this listing. It is more of a wrist each idea here. If you look at actual revenue it isisting fees to ice, a relatively small part of its overall revenue. So it is more of a question of braggin