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Shoeless Joe Jackson Club Chat Room, Message Board, Links, Calendar, Pager and more. Leave a message for Joe. |
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Club Chat Room, Message Board, Links, Calendar, Pager and more. Leave a message for Joe. |
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Shoeless Joe Jackson
Should he be in the Hall
of Fame?
| Games | AB | HIT's | 2B | 3B | HR | HR% | R | RBI | BB | SO | SB | BA | SA |
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| 1330 | 4981 | 1774 | 307 | 168 | 54 | 1.1 | 873 | 785 | 519 | 158 | 202 | .356 | .518 |
| No.15 on the list for Highest Single Season Batting Average | .408 |
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| No.3 on the list for Highest Lifetime Batting Average | .356 |
| No.31 on the list for Highest Lifetime Slugging Average | .518 |
| No.27 on the list for Highest Lifetime Triples | 168 |
| It seems to me that Joe was one of the greatest players of all time, what do you think? If you have information about Joe or know of other web locations, please let me know so Joe can have his presence on the internet. Here are some links to other dedicated fans. |
Official Site of Joe Jackson |
| Recently, I had the pleasure of attending a baseball camp that included Ted Williams. When the subject of Joe came up, Ted expressed his views that he was one of the greatest players of all time. Joe was admired by Ty Cobb and Babe Ruth who modeled his swing after Joe's. Ted said that Joe was banned for life by Judge Landis and his life is over, so give the man his due place in baseball history. He said this view is held by many hall of fame players and that he and others are pushing to have Joe inducted into the HOF. |
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| "Regardless of the verdict of
juries, no player that throws a ball game; no player that undertakes or
promises to throw a ball game; no player that sits in conference with a
bunch of crooked players and gamblers where the way and means of throwing
games are planned and discussed and does not promptly tell his club about
it, will ever play professional baseball".
Kenesay Mountain Landis, baseball commissioner, on his banishment of eight Chicago White Sox players involved in the 1919 World Series betting scandal, despite their acquittal in a Chicago trial, 1920. |
| Joe knew the others were doing it, he took some money for it and he told the owner about it. The owner ignored him. Joe did not throw the world series. He lead the series in batting average, he never made an error, he made some spectacular plays and hit a home run or two. He never did anything to throw the series and did everything he could to win. |
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| If you are looking for more information on Joe and the 1919 world series, I suggest a couple of other resources. There is a movie and book called 8 Men Out. This will give you a good idea of the situation. It is both comical and entertaining. Also the move of Baseball by Ken Burns. I believe it is in inning 3, is a good resource. | |