20 infamous moments in major league history.

NOW THAT MASTER CARD AND Major League basebal have foisted the game's memorable moments on us during the last World Series, a bunch of baseball writers who disagreed with several of the choices, were sitting around discussing other baseball moments. The kind Major League Baseball would prefer to forget.

Baseball's infamous moments.

While we surely missed a few, the following were the nearly unanimous choices of the writers. Suggestions from Baseball Digest readers are welcome for any omitted.

* Topping the list is the Black Sox scandal of 1919 when the heavily favored Chicago White Sox decided to throw the World Series against the Cincinnati Reds.

* Boston Red Sox owner Harry Frazee in 1920 needed money to produce a Broadway show so he sold Babe Ruth to the New York Yankees for $100,000 and a $300,000 loan, thus creating "The Curse of the Bambino." Ruth became a greater show in New York than any of Frazee's productions.

* Mickey Owen's dropped third strike in the 1941 New York Yankees-Brooklyn Dodgers World Series. In the fourth game, with two out in the ninth and the Dodgers leading, Owen dropped a third strike with Tommy Henrich at bat The ball got away from Owen and Henrich reached base. The Yankees went on to win, 7-4, and eliminated the Dodgers the next day.

* Bill Buckner's error on Mookie Wilson's grounder in Game 6 of the 1986 World Series enabled the New York Mets to defeat the Boston Red Sox. The Mets won again the next day to gain their second World Series crown.