Eddie Cicotte, one of the infamous Black Sox banned from baseball after their tainted World Series against Cincinnati, suggested hat the White Sox got the idea to throw the 1919 series after the Cubs did the same things a year earlier, according to an ESPN.com report on Wednesday. In a 1920 court deposition the Chicago History Museum recently put on its website, Cicotte said "the boys on the club" talked about how a Cub or a number of Cubs were offered $10,000 to throw the 1918 Series they lost to the Red Sox.