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Reinstate Shoeless Joe Jackson - Making Him Eligible For National Baseball Hall of Fame

Reinstate Shoeless Joe Jackson - Making Him Eligible For National Baseball Hall of Fame

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Started by Anonymous 14 years, 4 months ago
Career highlights and awards. Hit .408 as a rookie in 1911 World Series champion (1917) Third highest career batting average (.356) In November 1999 the US House of Representatives passed a resolution lauding Jackson's sporting achievements and encouraging MLB to rescind his ineligibility. The resolution was symbolic, as the US government has no jurisdiction in the matter. At the time MLB commissioner Bud Selig stated that Jackson's case was under review, but no action has been taken that would allow Jackson's reinstatement. In 1921 a Chicago jury acquitted Jackson and his seven teammates of wrongdoing. Nevertheless, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the newly appointed Commissioner of Baseball, declared all eight accused players ineligible for future MLB play, citing baseball's need to maintain a clean image as his top priority. Jackson never played in organized baseball after the 1920 season. Commissioner Selig, please reinstate Joe Jackson, making him eligible for entrance into the Hall of Fame in Baseball.

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August 12, 2021

Reaching this level of support feels like a quiet acknowledgement that the truth still matters after all this time. It has been a long and exhausting road to challenge a century of prejudice but I am not turning back now.

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Leonardo Guzman
6 years ago Featured

Shoeless Joe Jackson would have played for a few more years if it was not for his unfair banishment. He even could have been manager and led the Chicago White Sox to a World Championship to make up for the Black Sox Scandal. We need a commissioner, one who will actually listen to us and knows how to do his job. I am a very enthusiastic sports fan and I am doing the right thing like you are all doing. The Hall of Fame needs one more legend in it, and that is a person who led in triples 3 times, and his name is Shoeless Joe.

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Joseph Grossi
7 years ago Featured

Just look at his numbers, they speak for themselves. Both overall and in the series they are out of this world. Joe lived and breathed baseball. Let the man Rest In Peace and reinstate him so that can be eligible for the Hall.

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Charles Carter
11 years ago Featured

I think Joe should be in HALL OF FAME, he was found innocent of any wrong doing.

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KYLE GRIMM
1 year ago

best and nicest player of his era

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Jim Kaiser
3 years ago

Joe deserves to be in the HOF!!!

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Kyle Koerner
6 years ago

Please reinstate Shoeless Joe Jackson. He deserves to be eligible for Hall of Fame Induction.

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Kevin Johnson
6 years ago

Him not allowed in HOF is a travesty.

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Joseph Baril
6 years ago

Read the grand jury/ trial transcripts: the man was innocent.

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