Gene Paulette: First to be Banned from Baseball

Gene Paulette held down first base for the Nashville Vols in 1914 and 1915, and when the Browns offered four players in a trade, he became the possession of the St. Louis ball club for the 1916. Two of the players who came to Sulphur Dell helped lead the Vols to the 1916 Southern Association pennant.

Paulette did not fare so well, and as a  member of the 1920 Philadelphia Phillies, allegedly threw a game after cooperating with two gamblers. Before the next season began, Commissioner Landis banned him six months later before doing so with players involved in the Black Sox Scandal.

In this episode, I tell about Paulette and his career leading up to the fateful end to his baseball career.

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