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 award-winning writer who is not only an historian. he is very into baseball. it is a good company should because, right now, it is the 100th anniversary 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. it brought about many changes in baseball, including getting a commissioner and eight players on the white sox banned from baseball for life, but the story of that is not really a simple one. it is very complicated. so the title of tonight's talk is called "field of myths: 100 years after baseball's 1919 black sox scandal," so it should be a fascinating talk. i am excited to welcome david pietrusza, our speaker tonight. david: we are gathered here on the eve of this year's world series, and 100 years ago, who knew if there were going to be another world series? once that scandal was expose

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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 award-winning writer who is not only an historian. he is very into baseba.

guys won the tournament for the greater hudson valley little league scheduled to play this year at cooperstownent has been canceled. but there's no canceling the wildcats winning spirit. i'm impressed, go wildcats. >> i love that because it's westchester county. everyone knows or maybe doesn't know, but i am a dog lover, and i had put a picture of a dog from the carolina poodle rescue which is where i got my last, you're looking now not at the arms dealer but underwent surgery, we raise some money for him, he has a problem with his liver, but the problem was, and you can see right there, he is home recovering from surgery but the problem is he needs even more surgery after bringing in some specialist to take care of them and i want to thank all those people who went on my facebook and contributed. we still have money left, and i'll let you know. >> bret baier is up next. >> bret: welcome, breaking tonight for my national security advisor michael flynn is asking an appeals court to force a judge to dismiss criminal charges against him. it's the latest volley in the fight over general flynn's pr