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Jackson, Joe
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Jackson, Joe

 in full Joseph Jefferson Jackson known as Shoeless Joe Jackson

(born July 16, 1888, Greenville, S.C., U.S.—died Dec. 6, 1951, Greenville) U.S. baseball player. Jackson started his career in 1908 and became an outfielder with the Chicago White Sox. An outstanding hitter, his career batting average of .356 is the third-highest (after Ty Cobb and Rogers Hornsby) in baseball history. Jackson was involved in the 1919 Black Sox scandal; though acquitted in 1921, he was banned from baseball for life by baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis.
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They're still fussing about Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox, Eight Men Out, 88 years on.
NO SPRINGING FORWARD IN BASEBALL by Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
Shoeless Joe Jackson haunted our clubhouse until last month; the infamous "Black Sox" allegedly threw the 1919 World Series for the benefit of bookies.
Thanksgiving in October by Gallicho, Grant / Commonweal
I kept hearing the words of Shoeless Joe Jackson asking the Kevin Costner character, Ray Kinsella, if the baseball field he was standing in was heaven.
Building fields of dreams by Houston, Paul D. / School Administrator
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