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Did Star MLB Pitcher Jean Dubuc’s Career End Because Of The Chicago Black Sox
There has been speculation that baseball’s biggest scandal impacted even more players than originally thought
Many baseball fans are familiar with the principal figures in the Chicago Black Sox scandal, which saw eight members of the Chicago White Sox banned forever for their varying roles in throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds at the behest of gamblers. There were other players implicated in one way or another that don’t receive the same level of attention, including pitcher Jean Dubuc, who possibly had his excellent big-league career end because of his very loose association with the scandal.
Born in Vermont, Dubuc was a star high school hurler who rose to new levels pitching in college for Notre Dame. The right-hander reached the majors in 1908 when he was still a teenager and went on to have a very productive nine-year big-league career (1908–1909; 1912–1917; 1918–1919) with four different teams, most notably the Detroit Tigers. All told, he combined to go 85–76 with a 3.04 ERA. In particular, he was excellent during his five-year run with Detroit, winning 72 games.
Dubuc wasn’t a member of the 1919 White Sox, nor was he with the Reds that year. However, he was…
