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Originally Posted by AlexdeLarge
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson - The Official Web Site
Got it right there. So what makes your sourse the right sourse?
Plus if Commiskey would have paid the players what they deserved it may never had happened to begin with. Commiskey was cheap, and not paying the going wage at the time, that's why it happened in the first place
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That's a tribute cite, not any sort of investigation. That is not any sort of a legitimate source for determining Jackson's guilt or non guilt.
You interested in the truth? Here:
Amazon.com: Burying the Black Sox: How Baseball's Cover-Up of the 1919 World Series Fix Almost Succeeded: Books: Gene Carney
This was published less than a year ago and is the most exhaustive study of the Black Sox that has ever been released. I bought it, I read it, I have it....have you read it?
It is not well written, the author's style is plodding and academic. It's rather boring in places because it isn't a straight forward narrative as was "Eight Men Out". Rather, it is an examination and critique of all existing evidence. What it is...is factual and unromantic.
There is not the slightest doubt that a conspiracy to throw the Series existed, that the eight men identified as the conspirators were indeed plotting to do so, that they all accepted money from gamblers to do so...and they did indeed go out and lose.
There is not the slightest doubt that Joe Jackson was one of the conspirators, that he was completely aware that gamblers were paying players to throw the Series, nor is there any doubt that Jackson accepted money, $5000, for whatever part he played in the conspiracy, be it poor play or merely silence as to the crooked nature of the doings.
Read the book and then come back and defend Jackson if you wish. Until such time, I must class you as someone who has an incomplete understanding of the actual facts, with opinions rising from that incomplete understanding.