Shoeless Joe Jackson

Shoeless Joe Jackson was a Major League Baseball player during the early 20th Century. He is forever banned from baseball and is ineligible for the Hall of Fame for his alleged participation in the 1919 World Series Scandal.

Jackson and seven other players of the 1919 Chicago White Sox were accused of losing games intentionally and throwing the World Series. The players were acquitted by a Chicago jury, but the scandal led to the permanent ban of all eight players.

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  • Height: 6'1"
  • Weight: 200
  • Rookie Year: 1908

• July 16, 1888: Born Joseph Jefferson Jackson

• 1908: Signs with Connie Mack to play Major League Baseball

• 1908-09: Played with the Oakland Athletics

• 1910-1915: Plays for the Cleveland Indians

• 1911: Hits for a .408 batting average in 1911

• 1915-1920: Plays for the Chicago White Sox

• 1919: Accused of intentionally losing the World Series

• 1920: Forever banned in baseball by Kenesaw Mountain Landis

• 1921: Acquitted by a Chicago jury

• 1922: Returns to Savannah to open a dry cleaning business

• 1933: Moves to Greenville, South Carolina to open a barbecue restaurant and a liquor store

• 1951: Shoeless Joe Jackson dies of a heart attack at 64

• 1999: Listed #35 on The Sporting News List of Top 100 Baseball Players of All Time

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