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	Shoeless Joe Jackson Quotes
		"(Shoeless Joe) Jackson's fall from grace is one of the real tragedies of baseball.
		Shoeless Joe Jackson was an illiterate mill worker when he came to Cleveland in 1911.
		Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball by Judge Landis and the fight to have him reinstated still rages on — even in our hall of fame forum on Baseball Fever.
	www.baseball-almanac.com /quotes/quojcks.shtml (412 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Jackson is the only rookie to have batted over.400; he hit.408 for Cleveland in 1911 (although he would not be considered a rookie by today's definition).
		Jackson always publicly maintained his innocence and insisted that he was playing his best in the 1919 World Series until his death.
		Joe Jackson suffered from heart trouble in his later years and died in Greenville in 1951.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Shoeless_Joe_Jackson (1033 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		On July 16, 1888, the future "Shoeless Joe" was born Joseph Jefferson Jackson in Pickens County, South Carolina, as the eldest of George and Martha Jackson's eight children.
		It was here that he earned his nickname "Shoeless Joe," based on the fact that he discarded a pair of bothersome new spikes in the middle of a game and played the rest of the way in his stocking feet.
		Jackson plied his trade as a minor leaguer, (playing occasionally in the big leagues from 1908-1910) developing a swing so pure that Babe Ruth admitted to copying it and a throwing arm that could burn a runner at home plate from some 400 feet away.
	www.allprodad.com /9shoelessjoejackson.asp (476 words)

	Joe Jackson Timeline
		Joe is brought up to the Cleveland squad for the last 20 games of the season and bats.387 during that time.
		Jackson took the train back to Chicago that night (August 20th) with Harry Grabiner and played leftfield in a doubleheader the next day for the Sox.......he went one for seven against the Yankees.
		Joe plays with the Spinners until almost the end of their season....then signs to play with a semi-pro team in Philadelphia, PA to finish out the summer playing season.
	www.blackbetsy.com /joetime.htm (1042 words)

	Jackson, Shoeless Joe on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Brandon Mills, S.C. Holder of the third highest (.356) career batting average in major league history, Jackson was banned from baseball in 1921 for his part in the 1919 Black Sox scandal.
		Infamy and Immortality: 'Shoeless Joe' Jackson was part of baseball's worst scandal.
		Shoeless Joe Jackson's bat and the invention of baseball history.(Biography)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/j/jacksons1ho.asp (417 words)

	[Scott Tribble] Publications - Shoeless Joe Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		"Shoeless" Joe Jackson endures in baseball lore as the game's tragic hero, the naïve country boy who became embroiled with big-time gamblers in the infamous "Black Sox" scandal of 1919 and who was subsequently banned for life from the sport, cutting short an otherwise brilliant career.
		In September of 1920, in the midst of one of Jackson's greatest seasons, in which he was batting.392 with 121 RBI, a shocking revelation rocked the country: eight White Sox players, including Jackson, had conspired with gamblers to fix the 1919 World Series.
		Writers romanticized Jackson's tragic tale; the Chicago outfielder was the subject of W.P. Kinsella's wistful Shoeless Joe, later turned into the major motion picture Field of Dreams (1989).
	www.stribble.com /showarticle.php?ID=26 (530 words)

	Article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jackson was caught up in the middle of baseball's most infamous scandal, the 1919 World Series, or, as history recalls it, the "Black Sox" scandal.
		As Jackson pointed out, he did his best to win, and his series record obviously bears out his claim: He batted.375, had 13 hits, (one of which was taken away by one of the scorers), threw out five baserunners, fielded 1000%, and, handled thirty chances in the OF with no errors.
		Don Gropman maintains in his biography of Joe Jackson was a dupe of his Black Sox teammates, and a victim of the insidious Charles Comiskey.
	members.aol.com /tycobb1911/shoeless/article.html (827 words)

	What do you think about "Shoeless" Joe Jackson being banned from baseball for life in 1919 World Ser - Baseball Fever
		Jackson was a major part in the fixing of a world series, at that time the biggest platform for sports in the nation.
		Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball because he not only knew about the conspiracy to throw the 1919 World Series (at the expense of the honest players of the team, and of the Chicago fans), he took money from the fixers to participate in that conspiracy.
		Jackson hit.375 for the Series as a whole, but in the games the Sox lost (and which the crooked players were trying to lose), he hit something like.222 with men on base.
	www.baseball-fever.com /showthread.php?t=182 (895 words)

	Say It Ain't So, Joe!; The True Story of Shoeless Joe Jackson:0806513365:Donald Gropman; Alan M. Dershowitz:eCampus.com
		Jackson and seven teammates on the Chicago White Sox team were indicted for conspiring to throw the series to the Cincinnati Reds.
		Jackson himself emerges as one of the most talented athletes who ever played the game and as a man whose name and public image were unfairly disgraced.
		Joe Jackson is currently on the "ineligible list", but someday the Commissioner of Baseball may reinstate him and make Jackson eligible for induction into the Hall of Fame.
	www.ecampus.com /bk_detail.asp?isbn=0806513365 (350 words)

	Joe Jackson -- Shoeless Joe Jackson from South Carolina
		Jackson won the lawsuit and it was later overruled by a judge.
		Jackson is reported to have hit in Textile League games when he was in his late 50s.
		Jackson died on Dec. 5, 1951, just 10 days before he was scheduled to appear on Ed Sullivan's "Toast of the Town" in an effort to clear his name.
	www.historicbaseball.com /players/j/jackson_joe.html (692 words)

	ShoelessJoeJackson2
		Jackson's outstanding play won the respect of fans all over the country with his headline making fielding gems, powerful arm and with his great clutch hitting.
		Shoeless Joe became the idol of school kids all across the country with his natural style of play.
		Shoeless Joe holds the still unbroken Chicago White Sox record for the most extra base hits in one season as he recorded a total of 74, in 1920.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/shoelessjoejackson2.htm (533 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson
		Joseph Jefferson Jackson was the eldest of eight children, which included five brothers and two sisters, born to George and Martha Jackson in Pickens County, South Carolina, in 1887.* Pickens County is located in the northwest corner of the state on the North Carolina border.
		Joe was traded once again, for the last time, in 1915, for two outfielders, a pitcher and $31,500 in cash, to the Chicago White Sox.
		Jackson was acquitted of charges stemming from the scandal in a criminal trial in 1921, and settled in Savanna, Georgia, staying active in the game as he joined the semi-pro leagues and led his 1923 team to a championship.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h2070.html (1516 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson's Savannah Days and the Black Sox Scandal \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Jackson was a baseball enigma from an early age.
		Jackson led the White Sox to the World Series in 1917, capturing the Series four games to two over the New York Giants.
		Maggi Hall’s memory of Joe Jackson, who she still affectionately calls “Uncle Joe,” has little to do with baseball, other than a firm belief that he was unjustly banned from the game.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/submit/Daiss_Timothy1.stm (1797 words)

	ShoelessJoeJackson
		Joe Jackson was fitted with a new pair of baseball spiked shoes but these new shoes gave him blisters so he played
		Joe Jackson batted.395 with 226 hits including 44 doubles, 26 triples and had an on base pct of.458.
		Jackson never did win a batting crown but was respected by all players with his legendary baseball performances in fielding and hitting.
	www.baseballhistorian.com /html/shoelessjoejackson.htm (600 words)

	SITT - Shoeless Joe Jackson
		Even though, in two seasons with the A's, Jackson had a grand total of 6 hits in 40 at-bats, hitting an even.150, much better things were to come shortly for him in Cleveland. Meanwhile, Bris Lord would go on to hit.256 in an 8-year major league career.
		The 29-year-old Jackson appeared to be at the top of his game. Little did anyone realize he was a little over a year from seeing his career end and his life in ruins.
		With that, the hard-hitting country boy with the shiny fl club for a bat decisively completed his fall from grace. Joe Jackson, baseball star,.356 career hitter was made to vanish off the face of the baseball earth.
	www.thediamondangle.com /sitt/jjackson.html (726 words)

	Field of Dreams Movie Site - Shoeless Joe Jackson
		On July 16, 1888, the future "Shoeless Joe" was born Joseph Jefferson Jackson in Pickens County, South Carolina, as the eldest of George and Martha Jackson's eight children.
		It was here that he earned his nickname "Shoeless Joe," based on the fact that he discarded a pair of bothersome new spikes in the middle of a game and played the rest of the way in his stocking feet.
		Jackson plied his trade as a minor leaguer, (playing occasionally in the big leagues from 1908-1910) developing a swing so pure that Babe Ruth admitted to copying it and a throwing arm that could burn a runner at home plate from some 400 feet away.
	www.fieldofdreamsmoviesite.com /shoeless.html (511 words)

	Joe Jackson: This is the Truth
		Joe told his story to Furman Bisher, a sportswriter for the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
		But you'll never find Joe's name in the record books, because he was fl-listed for life after the great baseball scandal broke in 1920.
		Jackson has never raised his voice in protest, though he has stoutly maintained his innocence.
	www.blackbetsy.com /jjtruth.htm (629 words)

	1919 Black Sox Scandal
		According to some accounts, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson told the owner of the White Sox, Charles Comiskey, of the fix and was ignored.
		Joseph Jefferson Jackson was one of the best hitters to play the game, finishing with a.356 career average (third all time), and, in the last years before Babe Ruth took over the sport, was arguably the most popular.
		While reportedly "Acknowledging that he had let up in key situations," Joe Jackson has received tremendous support over the years for his ban to be lifted and for his induction into the Hall of Fame.
	www.mc.cc.md.us /Departments/hpolscrv/blacksox.htm (1224 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson - Reviews on RateItAll (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Being a notorious legend as Joe Jackson is today, he is still remembered by many afficionados who keep his name alive in the annals of baseball lore.
		Joe Jackson could have been considered one of the greatest players of all time, but the 1919 scandal greatly diminished his career.
		Jackson would easily be a Hall of Famer, had he not taken his 30 pieces of silver to throw the 1919 World Series.
	www.rateitall.com /i-147-shoeless-joe-jackson.aspx (1193 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson
		Jackson batted.351 during the regular season and.375 in the playoffs.
		Joe got his name "Shoeless" when he was playing for the Greenville club in 1908.
		Joe started out as a pitcher on the mill league team, but he threw the ball so hard that he broke the catchers arm, so they put him in the outfield.
	www.springlake-earth.org /siren/02feb00/hs/secondedition/shoeless_joe.html (600 words)

	Shoeless Joe Jackson
		I've written a musical entitled "Shoeless Joe." Right now, it's only a 45 minute CD of beautiful piano music, but with your help, it may one day be a Broadway Musical.
		Shoeless Joe's only crime was to be illiterate, impoverished and undefended.
		The glory and recognition that belonged to Shoeless Joe was stolen by a commissioner who banished this great player without ever proving a single accusation.
	www.gliq.info /sj.htm (335 words)

	Going to bat for Shoeless Joe Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jackson was one of the most marvelously talented players in baseball about 80 years ago.
		They tried to get Jackson to help them, and even though he never took a dime and never did anything to aid the fix, he was evicted from baseball for his alleged complicity.
		Jackson testified to all that before a grand jury in 1920, and Williams' testimony corroborated it point for point.
	www.qctimes.com /sports/990605_story2.html (908 words)

	Famous South Carolinians - Artists & Musicians - Shoeless Joe Jackson (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Shoeless Joe Jackson is best known to some as the young baseball player portrayed in the movie, Field of Dreams.
		Although the investigation found Shoeless Joe and his teammates innocent, the commissioner of baseball, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, found the men guilty of intentionally throwing the 1919 World Series.
		Jackson and his teammates were banned from baseball forever.
	sciway3.net /2001/famous-sc/joe_jackson.html (320 words)

	History Files - Chicago Black Sox
		The facts (the conspirators' recollections and Jackson's World Series statistics) indicate that Jackson had no involvement with the fix other than being aware that it was going on.
		In 1902, at the age of thirteen, Jackson went to work sweeping floors in the same cotton mill where his father and brother worked.
		By the time he was sixteen, Jackson was the best-known player in the Textile League and a local hero.
	www.chicagohs.org /history/blacksox/joe.html (269 words)

	Still a hero in hometown - The Boston Globe
		Jackson admitted to a Cook County (Ill.) grand jury on Sept. 28, 1920, that he received $5,000 as part of a gambling fix but said he tried his hardest to win.
		Jackson's empty red brick house will be moved near a new ballpark that is under construction in West Greenville, restored, and made into a museum.
		Before her death in 1959, Jackson's wife, Katie, assembled the family and told them, ''It is time that we put an end to letting people use us." CMG Worldwide handles the Jackson estate, and royalties go to the American Heart Association and American Cancer Society.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2005/10/25/still_a_hero_in_hometown (2243 words)

	The Business of Baseball :: Commentary :: Shoeless Joe Jackson: From "Tragedy" to Farce (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Jackson had not only signed a confession admitting his involvement in the plot to throw the Series, but testified as follows before the grand jury investigating the incident:
		On the other, Jackson hit.250 with one run scored and no RBI in the four thrown games, while batting.500 with four runs and six RBI in the other four.
		In short, Jackson richly deserves the "taint upon his memory." If South Carolina's elected officials truly want to clear the memories of those who, 75 years ago, were victimized by "summary punishment that fell far short of due process standards," they can start with their own state's sorry history of state-sanctioned lynchings.
	www.businessofbaseball.com /shoelessjoe.htm (706 words)

	Joe Jackson \| BaseballLibrary.com
		Shoeless Joe Remains a Scapegoat by Harvey Frommer
		Jackson was supremely gifted in his baseball ability and supremely limited in his ability to deal with real life.
		Joe was an illiterate son of the cotton-town South, ignorant of city ways, easy to ridicule for everything but his baseball talent.
	www.baseballlibrary.com /baseballlibrary/ballplayers/J/Jackson_Joe.stm (2340 words)

	Salon.com News \| Shoeless Joe Jackson revisited
		Jackson was banned from baseball by commissioner Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis' decision in 1920, but that had nothing to do with the Hall of Fame.
		Someone, somewhere is supposed to have written something that proves Joe Jackson was not good enough to be in the Hall of Fame.
		Jackson was not the great all-around star he is often made out to be in misty-eyed old-timers' accounts; all statistics for his time show him to be slightly below average as a fielder and base stealer.
	archive.salon.com /news/sports/col/barra/2001/08/09/shoeless_joe/print.html (1230 words)

	Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson by David Fleitz
		Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of baseball's most colorful, and tragic, characters.
		Joe led all batters with a.375 average in that Series, but questions about the quality of his play persist to this day.
		It tells the true story of Joe Jackson, separating the "Field of Dreams" myth from the man, and explores his participation in baseball's greatest scandal.
	www.wcnet.org /~dlfleitz/jxpage.htm (527 words)

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