Gambling Scandal and Banning
On October 26, 1877, Louisville club vice president Charles Chase confronted George and fellow Gray Jim Devlin with charges that they threw some road games in August and September. Both admitted only to throwing non-league games, one of which was an exhibition game in Lowell, Massachusetts on August 30, and another in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on September 3. The admissions also implicated teammates Al Nichols and Bill Craver. Hall claimed that he and Devlin helped in losses to the Cincinnati Reds on September 6 and to the minor league Indianapolis Blues on September 24‚ but he argued that since the Reds were about to be suspended and the games nullified‚ it amounted to an exhibition game. As a result of the scandal, all four players were banned for life from Major League Baseball.
Hall died in Ridgewood, New Jersey at the age of 74. He was laid to rest at Evergreen Cemetery in Brooklyn, New York.
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