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To: Ann Archy
Shoeless Joe Jackson was a somewhat primitive guy from very rural backwoods North Carolina who was so good at baseball that he was hired as a factory foreman (without much work obligation) at age 10 to play on the factory's semi-pro team. Connie Mack heard about him and signed him at 17 to a Major league contract. Jackson would not report because he learned he would have to travel by train and he thought that trains MUST be Satanic because he could not figure out how they worked. Eventually his contract was traded to Cleveland and he reported and played. He was later traded to the Chicago White Sox.

After he was banned for life, by circus clown commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis (previously the most overturned judge on the federal bench), Jackson continued to play for many years for chump cahnge under a variety of assumed names in the minors. He died in about 1950 of heart trouble and had been operating a modest grocery store in Sout Carolina. He was a brilliant player, a tragic figure, and a far better man than Gandil and Risberg who were the ringleaders of the Black Sox.

Joe Jackson was a white man and Fay Vincent, however poor a judge of Pete Rose's claim to Hall of Fame membership, is no racist.

56 posted on 01/02/2004 11:57:17 PM PST by BlackElk (The auto-da-fe is God's chosen way to purge sin from the land.!)
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To: BlackElk
So, was Shoeless Joe the guy who delivered the bag of money to the guy in the bathtub in a hotel in Cincnnati....I think it was the Gibson, or was he the reciprient?
57 posted on 01/03/2004 9:09:12 AM PST by Ann Archy
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