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Originally Posted by oaks1912
Rich,.....It's ironic how timely this post is. On my recent cross country trip, I visited with Bill McAvoy in Omaha, who shared the same story with me about Jim Jones, the player featured in the 1952/53 Globe Printing Sioux City Soos set. I had never heard that story and it intrigued me for the daylong drive from Omaha to Chicago. While in Chicago, I visited with a longtime minor league researcher, who brought up the file on Jim Jones. They are absolutely, positively, two different people. If someone overcharged you for that card based on it being the People's Temple Jones, and you need me to put it into print, I'll happily oblige... And , it was very nice visiting with you in Cleveland...  |
Makes you realize how much easier information is to find nowadays then it used to be. I imagine it was much easier to pass on inaccurate information like this before the advent of the internet, google and research forums.
I mentioned Jackie Wilson before. There were two fairly well known professional boxers named Jackie Wilson (one was an Olympic medalist and the other was a lesser known World Champion) who fought in the 1940's. One from Pittsburgh and one from California. A cursory look at their records would indicate it would be impossible for either to be the R&B singer Jackie Wilson as the times don't really match up. The singer Jackie was only 15 around the time both these guys retired.
Yet, people who don't know any better get excited they finally found the Young Jackie Wilson boxing image they were always looking for when they stumble across an image of the two I mentioned earlier.