Shoeless Joe Jackson his life and historic locations 

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Thank you for relating that moment in his life. It makes that scene in 'Field of Dreams" even more tender, when Joe talks about getting kicked out, the smell of the game and how he would have played for noth'n. Can you imagine Joe and Ray embracing on the other side? This is why baseball is the greatest game of them all.

My family is from SC. I’m Black. I wonder if he was passing for white. Some of his story of getting kicked out the league makes more sense. That’s the only thing worse than gambling since it’s clear he didn’t fix the games. The fact he grew up as a sharecropper makes me question most of his story.

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@@PassingOnThrough That’s awesome I lived there was born there.Thanks for the history lesson 😊❤

Great use of “cavorting”. I agree with the points you’ve made. He’s served his time.

Unfortunately Cobb was a Freemason... 👎 Hopefully he Found Jesus.

He couldn’t read or write so how could he sign anything!

@@ernestpassaro9663 You might want to look again. I never said Joe wrote anything. I said a drunken washed up sports writer out of New York wrote a hit piece on Ty Cobb, not Joe Jackson.

@@itinerantpatriot1196 ok

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No, he accepted money to throw the 1919 World Series. Hell no!

@@marcbrooks2466 I do not agree.

The bambino patterned his stance and hitting on shoeless Joe enough said I rest my case should be in the hall shame on hall of Fame idiot people

@@lancemousel3457 I know he was a great hitter; this is not the point. I need no history lessons about baseball from you. He accepted money to throw the 1919 World Series, and this is an absolute FACT! He does not belong in the HOF, and he is NOT in the HOF, and I am not asking to like it. Disagree with me all day long, and you will still be wrong!

Thank you so much for your kind words! I agree I was hoping commissioner Manfred would do the right thing and now he’s done the same as so many before him and just kicks the can down the road. I’m hoping the success of the field of dreams game may have an impact.

@@PassingOnThrough YES ! Perhaps THIS will have a visceral response from him to right this !

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Great video, and a great player, but NO, he does not deserve to be in the Hall. He accepted the money, and of this, there is no question.

@@garymorris1856 yes several historians keep ending up with that same conclusion.

@@PassingOnThrough Yes, it's always pointed out that he hit quite well in the Series of 1919, but often omitted that he did not hit well in crucial situations, and his defensive play was very questionable.

@@garymorris1856 Just as long as you feel that exact same way about the steroid cheats that have forever ruined the entire game of baseball and not just one world series.

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He probably should not have taken the money to throw the games then (which he testified, under oath, that he did).

He made dubious fielding decisions throughout the series. Still, to have been barred for life from the HOF was unfair.

No, you are wrong.

@@vgr112261 No, he should not be in HOF.

Compared to the criminals in sports today he's a saint

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Always do your best does not apply to Shoeless Joe he admitted he was part of the fix and went out of his way to not do his best and he delivered. I don’t want to hear he didn’t know what he was involved in he wasn’t able to read and write but he still had common sense .

Citation please.

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I always believed that Jackson was handed a very raw deal by Landis and your video only reaffirmed that belief! Shoeless Joe was, and remains to this day, one of baseball's most tragic figures!

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Is it Hank Aaron stadium in Birmingham also you can see it from Interstate 65

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@@PassingOnThrough I'd keep up better, but I don't hardly ever get notifications, so I drop in from time to time, to see what's new, LOL! While not a huge baseball fan, this was very interesting. I'm also glad, that you didn't go into all the horrid details about his part in the cheating debacle, but focused on his awesome career.

Great insight into the life of Shoeless Joe Jackson. It appears if he knew about the scandal he never participated in it even if he did attend a meeting. He batted .375 leading all hitters in the 1919 World Series with no errors and I think I saw something where he threw some runners out besides in that World Series. It appears he was a successful businessman which says a lot for him since he was illiterate. He deserves to be in the Hall of Fame.

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@@PassingOnThrough You're welcome. I always knew the basics of the story, and researched Joe more after watching the video. Guilty or not, he served his time! Pete, same thing. Reinstate these guys. Their baseball prison terms were MORE than fulfilled at this point.

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Read L.Ritter's " Glory of their Times" About baseball old days- a great great read

Probably should not have taken the money then (which he did, by his own admission, under oath).

@@bauerj3398 He did testify in the affirmative, however history will show that he was railroaded. He took the advice of the attorney hired to defend he and his teammates. That attorney was very short-sighted. Sorry, but lawyers are ruthless. I was once accused of a crime I most certainly didn't commit. Money was tight and I was assigned a legal aid lawyer who told me to plead guilty to a lesser charge. When I said I had committed no crime he said well then go hire a lawyer because it's "my job to get you through the system ASAP." Long story short, I had to borrow $5,000 from my sister, hired a real attorney, and the mess was cleared up 1 2 3. I realize the man wasn't using a legal aid attorney, but he was just going with the legal advice given him. The money was forced on him and he basically either took it, or followed legal advice saying that he took it. Why would he conspire to throw the series, and then go out and have a great world series? It doesn't make any sense to me. It's another one of those many instances where the history that was recorded was pure bullshit. Look at all the erroneous things that history has recorded about Ty Cobb. Hell, history tells us that Lee Harvey Oswald murdered JFK 😂

@@mtp4430 Wait, so you are saying he lied and didn't take money? That is some serious revisionist history you got going there. If you want to try to argue that he took the money but then didn't partake of the game fixing, that is a reasonable discussion, but to pretend he didn't take money, when he did, and he admitted he did, is just plain ludicrous.

@@bauerj3398 it's obvious you don't have much experience with lawyers or the practice of law. The jails are filled with people who claimed culpability in things they never took part in. It's all part of the system, and unfortunately the system doesn't work. However, it's the only one we've got. I said he may or may not have taken money. Just because he said he did regarding the legal advice he was given doesn't necessarily make it so. I was advised to plead guilty to a crime I've never committed, just to get a reduced sentence. Why should I have a sentence at all if I'm innocent. It took me $5,000 and an above board attorney to squash that claim before it even went to court. The evidence was clear that I had done nothing, but these legal aid schmucks advised me to plead guilty to a lesser sentence. This man was an uneducated illiterate man. Documents actually had to be read to him because he didn't even know how to read. But you're right, he shouldn't have taken the money. But the jury is still out on whether he took it or not. Ask yourself this? Why would the conspirators who devised the plan to throw the series pay this man when he never delivered on his promise? Instead, he had an outstanding series. When things don't add up you have to question it. And you have to question it two or three times when it involves our legal system. If he was advised it would go away by just admitting he took part in it, and that was the legal advice he got, and uneducated unsophisticated type that he was, would probably go with whatever his counsel advised. Maybe he did take the money as he stated. But I believe that was coercement. Go ahead, make a deal with underworld figures, then renege on that deal, and see if they pay you LOL. The man was the leading hitter in the series. You don't pay a man who double crosses you. That's just plain and simple logic.

@@mtp4430 It is obvious the only experience you have in this matters is that of a criminal. Keep making up excuses, talking out of your ass, in complete disregard of the facts, and pretend you are some sort of autodidact Perry Mason, if that helps you puff out your chest a bit. Meanwhile, in the real world, Jackson testified under oath that he took $5000, signed a confession to the exact same effect, and stated afterwards, the exact same thing (his bone of contention was that he was promised $20,000, but only got $5000.)

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Put Joe in the HOF!!!!

Now now... Two wrongs don't make a right...

No, he should not.

@@TheBatugan77 hell no!

I agree wholeheartedly!

Which “juicers” are in the HOF?

@@vgr112261 Ortiz, Pedro and Pudge to start with.

What about Pete Rose will he ever be in the Hall of Fame

@@mikekeeler6362 no chance

Cobb's faults? So all the other players were boy scouts, right? Are you kidding!

@@joenewman7474 You're right. Mel Hall was pretty bad.