Ted, I am eager to hear your views. though Jackson was illiterate, he was also known as a shrewd business man by many who came in contact with him. He may have just wanted too much money as compared to other players of his time, and the candy and tobacco companies didn't really need him to sell the particular product if they had dozens of other star players of the day signed on. After he left baseball I think he ran several businesses in Greenville, which tells me that he had some business sense about him even though he had never gone to school.
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