he calculated that the front row of the upper deck at the new comiskey park is farther from the field than the last row of the old upper deck in the old one. and so much of baseball is about intimacy and how can you maneuver things so that the greatest number of people are the closest to the field and the most connected to the field, which is again, another important thing that campaign yards and baltimore did. they really thought of. that many of the concrete donuts are truly just circles. they were about this abstract shape of a big circle, because you could kind of put a diamond in. it you could put a football grid iron in it. it could all just be pumped into a circle. but in fact, it doesn't work for baseball. >> briefly, the good and bad of the old comiskey? >> the old comiskey, i felt, was funky and nice. it didn't have quite the truly beautiful appeal of wriggly uptown. it didn't have the magic of the brick wall and the ivy and all of that stuff. it didn't integrate into the neighborhood as well. but it was a wonderful ballpark. the best of those early generation of ballparks,

but many players feel comiskey is cheating them of their bonuses. the friction creates an opportunity for a newngster named arnold rothstein, who runs a sports-betting racket. >> arnold rothstein got to some of the players of the chicago white sox and gave them a little bit of money under the table to supposedly throw the series. >> when the sox lose the series 5 games to 3, rothstein makes a bundle. the "black sox" scandal erupts. a grand jury indicts shoeless joe and seven other players for conspiracy. >> several of those teammates confessed that they were part of fixing the series and implicated joe jackson. >> testimony of pitcher edward cicotte is said to have been most incriminating evidence. >> prompted by comiskey's lawyer, jackson admits taking $5,000 from teammate lefty williams, but he denies throwing the series. outside the courtroom, a young sox fan supposedly confronts his hero. "say it ain't so, joe!" he says. but was it so? why would a player like shoeless joe throw a game, a world series game? >> well, the reality is that you and i will never know, with 100% certainty, the trut