A Conversation for The 1919 World Series
Shoeless Joe
Jimi X Started conversation Sep 21, 1999
Hey Fenny!
Give the man his due. Even while he was allegedly throwing the series, Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .375 and set a world series record with his 12 hits!
I know it's easy to hate them all for throwing the series, but I've read somewhere that he was really uneducated and didn't know what he was agreeing to. Just wanted to get that off my chest!
Nice article though! 
Shoeless Joe
Fenchurch M. Mercury Posted Sep 24, 1999
I'm going to add a statement by Ted Williams (San Diego guy, so I love 'im and listen to 'im) and one from the Joe Jackson Virtual Hall of fame which said it perfectly... I do believe he was an excellent player, and there was no evidence that he did anything to flaw the games, it's just that he accepted the mulah. "Yes son, I'm afraid it is". 
Shoeless Joe
Ioreth (on hiatus) Posted Feb 25, 2000
He took the money, because he needed money. He didn't let it affect any of the games he played in. I can see the validity of throwing him out of baseball, but as he confessed, and is now dead, there is no reason Shoeless Joe Jackson should be kept out of Cooperstown. Pete Rose, on the other hand, is a bad person, has yet to confess, and has no right to HOF status.
Shoeless Joe
Fenchurch M. Mercury Posted Feb 25, 2000
I agree that there was no reason he should have been kept out, but not with the statement that he 'needed money'. While all of them were underpaid, he had one of the higest salaries (if not the highest, I've since forgotten half of my own article 
) on the team. Others were making MUCH less and didn't take money.
Shoeless Joe
Ioreth (on hiatus) Posted Feb 25, 2000
Others weren't offered. But yeah, you're right. My post was sort of stream-of-consciousness, as I had just scrolled through Shoeless Joe about an hour ago for othe purposes. Corrected: He wanted money. That didn't touch his baseball game. What he did was wrong, but not wrong enough to keep him out of the Hall after a confession and his death.
On another note, I'm impressed - you responded in about eight minutes, even though there hadn't been anyone in the forum for 20 weekes. Is there some trick here I don't know about?
Shoeless Joe
Jimi X Posted Feb 25, 2000
Didn't you know??
Fenny is our overlord! WEell, the mayor anyway!
- X
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