Eddie Cicotte was one of eight players permanently ineligible for professional baseball for his alleged participation in the Black Sox scandal in the 1919 World Series, in which the favored White Sox lost to the Cincinnati Reds in eight games.
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Eddie Cicotte was the son of Ambrose Eddie Cicotte and Archange Mary Drouillard, both of mainly French-Canadian extraction.
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Eddie Cicotte married Rose Ellen Freer, daughter of Russell John Freer and Annie Cecile Thornton, both of whom would later live with the Cicottes.
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Eddie Cicotte was a starting pitcher and a knuckleball specialist who won 208 games and lost 149 over the course of a 14-year career pitching for the Detroit Tigers, Boston Red Sox, and Chicago White Sox.
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Eddie Cicotte did not return to the major leagues again until 1908, when he resurfaced with the Red Sox.
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Eddie Cicotte led the league in winning percentage in 1916, but his best year was 1917, when he won 28 games and led the league in wins, ERA, and innings pitched.
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From September 15,1916 to July 25,1917, Eddie Cicotte pitched 25 straight starts in which he allowed three earned runs or less with at least six innings pitched, which retroactively became known as the quality start.
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Eddie Cicotte won Game 1, lost Game 3, and pitched six innings of relief in Game 5 for a no-decision.
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Book Eight Men Out by Eliot Asinof and the movie based on the book does record that Eddie Cicotte, despite being grossly underpaid for a pitcher of his ability, resisted repeated attempts by Chick Gandil to get him to throw the series until just days before the World Series opened when it became clear that Comiskey would never pay him even part of the promised bonus.
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Eddie Cicotte was the first of the eight players to come forward, signing a confession and a waiver of immunity.
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Eddie Cicotte later recanted this confession and was acquitted of all charges at trial by jury.
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Eddie Cicotte managed a service station, served as a game warden in the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, then went to work for Ford Motor Company, where he retired in 1944.
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Eddie Cicotte was portrayed by actor Steve Eastin in the 1989 film Field of Dreams.
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