“Shoeless” Joe Jackson, 7 other “Black Sox” from MLB set again; How they were banned for fixing 1919 World Series

“Shoeless” Joe Jackson and seven other members of the Chicago White Sox from 1919 were hired again on Tuesday by Rob Manfred Rob ManfredIn addition to the former Cincinnati Reds star Pete Rose, who entitles you to the Baseball Hall of Fame.

Jackson was. He was under eight white SOX players who were banned by MLB because he had thrown the 1919 world series in the notorious “Black Sox” scandal. He died in 1951, but he remains one of the best -known names of the baseball for his portrayal of Ray Liotta in the Field of Dreams from 1989.

The other seven former White Sox players who were removed from the constant inadmissibility list from MLB include the first Baseman Arnold “Chick” Gandil, the Pitcher Eddie Cicotte, the Center Field Field “Happy” Felsch, Infielder Fred McMullin, Shortstop Charles “Swede” Risberg, third -party Baseman George “Buck” Buck “Buck” “Weeber”, and pitcher “.

They were accused of having made bribes from gambling problems to deliberately lose the World Series this year against the Cincinnati Reds. The scandal finally led to the appointment of the first baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, who had banned the affected white SOX players despite their acquittal for criminal charges.

“Regardless of the juries' judgment, no player throws a ball game, no player who maintains or promises suggestions, not playing a game, not a player who is sitting at the conference with a series of crooked players and players in which the opportunities and means of throwing games are discussed, and does not tell his club immediately, will ever play professional baseball,” wrote Landis.

While Jackson admitted to taking 5,000 US dollars in cash from players, he said that he had never done anything to throw one of the games in the World Series. While some of his teammates admitted to repairing games, Weaver played any participation, even though he admitted that he knew about it. In 1922 he applied unsuccessfully to MLB again, without success.

Jackson hit .375 with the only Homerun for one of the two teams in the World Series, and Weaver beat .324, whereby no field errors had committed and gave their claims that they did not have in the solution.

Whether Landi's punishments were fair or reasonable or not has remained a topic discussed. But as Bill Lambs Bill Lamb stated, “playing the game practically disappeared from the landscape of the major League after this punishment was imposed on the Black Sox.”

Rose's reinstatement comes eight months after his death, and the day before the Reds, the career hit by MLB with Pete Rose Night planned.

Manfred announced on Tuesday that he changed the policy of the league due to permanent inadmissibility and said bans would be in death. Rose and the Black Sox were part of 17 players and managers.

According to the current rules of the Hall of Fame, the earliest Rose or Jackson could be included in the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2028.

“The trial of shoeless Joe Jackson:” A dramatic reconstruction by CBS Chicago from 1981

1981 documentary filmmaker Scott Craig Produced an award -winning dramatic re -re -enactment of Shoeleless Joe Jackson's attempt from 1921, especially for CBS Chicago.

As could be seen in the replica, Jackson admitted that Linksy Williams from White Sox players won 5,000 US dollars. The public prosecutor claimed that Jackson had taken the money after the fourth game of the World Series and deliberately played badly to throw the series and damage the finances of the White Sox owner Charles Comiskey. But Jackson said that he had only taken the money after the series ended, and only kept it after trying to give Comiskey the money.

Instead of introducing actors to play a jury and read a judgment, the producers of “The Trial of Shoeless Joe Jackson” asked Channel 2 -viewers to be the jury. This Sunday evening, the spectators called 1-900 numbers to note whether Jackson was innocent or guilty due to the certificate they had seen in the drama, and the verdict was announced after the weekend at the weekend at the weekend.

In a published report, it says that around 26,000 spectators were called, and the overwhelming majority thought that Jackson was innocent.

The writer Bill Brasher wrote the script for “The Trial of Shoeless Joe Jackson”. Jonathan Fuller plays Schuhlose Joe, revered Chicago stage actor Mike Nussbaum plays White Sox Manager Kid Gleason, and Vince Veverito plays cigar choming player and narrator ABE Attell.

Photojournalist Steve LaskerThe recently died at the age of 94 was for production behind the camera. A courtroom in the Cook County Criminal Courthouse – now the courthouse of George N. Leighton – was put into service for a set.

You can see “The Trial of Shoeless Joe Jackson” below.