There is considerable debate as to Shoeless Joe’s guilt. I am looking at his stats for the Series and he had a 375 batting average with one home run and six RBIs and I recall reading somewhere a number of years back that these certainly were very good and respectable numbers that do not really indicate somebody throwing games.
In that same source, the writer commented that Joe was functionally illiterate and simply signed “X” on a document admitting his guilt, so even his supposed admission of guilt is a good deal questionable.
Do not mean to get off topic here, but the Pete Rose debate almost always raises the Shoeless Joe Jackson one.
Has Shoeless Joe ever been accorded due process? I’ll admit to never studied the Black Sox scandal in depth, perhaps that’s a job for the Commissioner’s office?
I believe that Jackson was banned for accepting money for the fix and for not reporting the fix.
Buck Weaver took no money and did not fix games, but was banned for knowing about it and not reporting it.