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Julie Vognar..after he was elected to the HOF. Even if he had been convicted of the crime itself, I doubt they would have REMOVED him. Or?
It really seems dumb of James to equate Jackson with a murderer, though. That's what makes me cringe. If he's so horrified (even with Jackson's clumsey attempts to give back the money he'd been given for the fix and at the same time not play too badly around the Blacksox sellout), O.K, no HOF. But that hardly makes him the equivalent of a murderer, and he remains one of the greatest players of all time.