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Say It Ain't So, Joe!: The True Story of Shoeless Joe Jackson

They called him Shoeless Joe. He could throw a baseball over four hundred feet His lifetime batting average of .358 is among the highest in major league history, and he is generally considered the greatest natural hitter ever.He would seem to be a shoo-in for baseball's Hall of Fame, but he was implicated in the most notorious sports scandal in American history, the fixing of the 1919 World Series. Jackson and seven teammates on the Chicago White Sox were indicted for conspiring to throw the series to the Cincinnati Reds. Though tried and found innocent, all eight players were banned from baseball for life by the new baseball commissioner.

Audience
adult
Length
long · 416 pages

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