Just some side research: Banned For Life, and what some of their stories mean...

Just as a matter of killing time today, I decided to check out a Wikipedia list of over 70 pages of athletes thrown out of sports for life...

A few of the stories become interesting...

• It may not have been only the 1919 World Series that was thrown.  1917's appears to also have been a throw by the losing side, and it's one of the reasons that, even though Heinie Zimmerman was not proven for the 1919 fix, it is believed by baseball historians he was involved in a 1917 fix, and was banned as a member of the Black Sox as a result.
• A number of match-fixing and spot-fixing life bans, including several soccer referees, a couple of tennis players, and at least one rugby player.
• Six members of the 2014 Russian Olympic Women's Hockey team were among the Sochi drug busts -- all banned for life.
• February 23, 2017:  22 players from the national soccer team in Laos banned for life for match-fixing.
• Ajay Sharma, an Indian cricketeer.  Banned for life in 2000 for match-fixing -- cleared 14 years later of all relevant charges by the Indian courts.
• September 20, 2013:  14 El Salvador football players banned for life for a mass match-fixing scandal.  Several tried to continue to play in countries not under the FIFA umbrella.
• Ibragim Samadov:  Banned for life from weightlifting competition after throwing down his bronze medal at the 1992 Summer Olympics, a crime against the Olympics itself -- for weighing about 1/3 of an ounce over the other two competitors with which he tied.  (Under the rules then, first tiebreaker is the lightest body weight.)
• Damir Ryspayev:  Thrown out of the KHL for life in 2016 for starting a mass incident, prompting an exhibition game to be thrown out within three minutes after he effectively challenged anyone in the place.  The ban was ended in 2017.
• In hearing the story of Swede Risberg's involvement of the 1919 Black Sox Scandal reads much like some of the e-sports stories I've read of the last few years:  Risberg apparently was given $15,000 to fix the World Series.  He didn't even make $4,000 for the season playing fairly.
• Gordon McKellen:  Banned for life in 2001 from figure skating for sexual harassment of young female skaters.
• Angel Matos of Cuba:  2000 gold medalist, 80 kg Taekwondo.  Banned for life at the same event 8 years later for kicking the referee in the face after being DQ'd out of the bronze medal match for taking too long of a medical supervision just seconds before winning the match.
• Shame Hmiel:  Banned from NASCAR for 3 failed drug tests by 2006, paralyzed in a lower-level racing incident in 2010.
• Dick Higham:  The only umpire known banned from baseball for life.  Association with a well-known gambler, passing information on the fixing of games in 1882.
• Horace Fogel:  The owner of the Phillies from 1909-1912, banned for life for insinuating the umpires favored the New York (baseball) Giants and had it in for the Phillies.
• Billy Coutu:  The only player banned for life from the NHL -- referee attack, 1927.  Lifted two years later for minor leagues, five years later for the NHL, never played in the NHL again.
• John Coppolella:  Front office member of the Atlanta Braves, banned for life in 2017 for mass tampering of prospects.  He is the most recent person to gain that sanction, the forty-seventh to receive the life ban.
• This includes some surprising non-Pete Rose names:  Ferguson Jenkins (drugs, reinstated by an arbiter, Hall of Fame in 1991), Willie Mays and Mickey Mantle (conduct unbecoming the game, they both were hired as greeters and autograph-signers in Atlantic City casinos in the 1980's, and Bowie Kuhn ruled that a ban offense.  Peter Ueberroth reinstated both in 1985.), George Steinbrenner (tampering/extortion to "dig up dirt" on Dave Winfield, reinstated by Bud Selig three years later), Marge Schott (racist misconduct in 1996, reinstated two years later).