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19 to 21 Volume 4, #27
All-Baseball.com, June 20, 2006 by Benjamin Kabak
No, those weren’t the odds on the 1919 World Series, it’s…
BASEBALL … THEN AND NOW
BY JOHN SHIFFERT
News Item: July 16, 1889 - Joseph Jefferson Jackson is born in Brandon Mills, South Carolina.
One of the great mysteries of baseball revolves around the performance of Joseph Jefferson Jackson, better know as “Shoeless Joe,” in the 1919 World Series. While there should be little doubt that the illiterate former mill hand from northwestern South Carolina was, in conjunction with said Series, given a large sum of money - usually reported as $5000 - by what could be euphemistically called “gambling interests,” the question as to whether he earned the ill-gotten gain by in some fashion taking part in the throwing of the Series is a matter of debate… one that can never be resolved for certain.
The full text of this article can be found at All-Baseball.com.
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