Shohei Ohtani says he never gambled on sports

A World Series game between the Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds is seen at Redland Field in Cincinnati, Ohio, in 1919. Cincinnati Reds/MLB/Getty ImagesBaseball has a troubled history with gambling. The most famous – or infamous – incident is the “Black Sox Scandal.”During the 1919 World Series, the heavily-favored Chicago White Sox were stunned 5-3 in a best-of-9 series by the Cincinnati Reds. However, a year later, eight White Sox players were accused of conspiring with gamblers to lose the Fall Classic on purpose.They were all acquitted in a 1921 trial but were banned for…