Chicago trial attorney Adam Hoeflich has a busy month ahead as he prepares to try one case from Chicago history and a current one that also will make headlines.

The partner at Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott will “prosecute” players from the 1919 White Sox team accused of intentionally losing the World Series for money in a mock trial for Chicago Ideas Week. In real life, those players were acquitted, although they were barred from baseball. But Hoeflich wonders if modern technology would change the outcome if the trial were held today.

“Both sides would talk about how fast players ran during certain plays or the velocity of different pitches in the series and compare it to previous games,” says Hoeflich, who will serve as prosecutor while law partner Phil Beck will represent the players at the Oct. 13 event.

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