“Shoeless”Joe Jackson and the 1919 Chicago Black Sox Scandal

Introduction As Major League Baseball prepares for the post-season and World Series, it is important that we look back at one of baseball’s greatest players and the events of 1919. The scandal surrounding the World Series that year would forever change the face of professional sports. “Shoeless” Joe Jackson’s professional career was abruptly ended after being banned from baseball in 1921 for his alleged part in fixing the World Series of 1919. I hope to shed …

…Shoeless” Joe Jackson is regarded as one of the best to have played the game. From my research it seems a shame that Major League Baseball will not reinstate him so he can rightfully take his place in Cooperstown in the Hall of Fame. If the events of 1919 were to happen today Joe would have had his own lawyer and would have, more than likely, not been banned from the sport he so deeply cherished.