Travis Jackson got into the Hall of Fame thanks to an assist from his former double play partner, Frankie Frisch, who somehow managed to gain control of the gate to Cooperstown for a number of years. Before the gate was closed, a whole bunch of old Giants (like Highpockets Kelly) and Cardinals (like Jesse Haines) were let in, permanently crashing the criteria for what establishes a Hall of Famer. To be fair, the 1945 Hall of Fame election was a serious joke, but Frisch was the king of lowering the Hall of Fame's standards.
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