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To: Howard C. who wrote (40103)3/10/1999 11:11:00 AM
From: justaninvestor  Read Replies (1) of 50264
 
"Ever hear of Shoeless Joe Jackson?? An OLD baseball player many years ago who pitched, I believe, while he was in his 40s or older"

Actually, Shoeless Joe was an outfielder for the Chicago White Sox who got, IMO, unjustly nailed for the infamous Black Sox scandal in 1919 ( I think). A bunch of the White Sox players hated the owner, Charlie Comiskey, so much that they decided to throw the World Series against the heavy underdogs - Cincinnati. I think there were 6 or 7 of the players involved and Joe, a naive kid from the midwest, was implicated. It's Shoeless that people are referring to when you hear the phrase "Say, it ain't so, Joe".

To this day, the heirs of Shoeless Joe are still trying to get him into the baseball Hall of Fame. There was a great movie made about this scandal - Six or Seven Men Out - something like that.

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