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Originally Posted by FrankWakefield
Great stuff!!!!! Gambling was THE MAJOR problem with professional baseball. That's why the leagues put in strong rules about gambling. A good book about the gambling scourge is The Fix is In, and after reading that it is easier to understand why the Black Sox were dealt with as they were, and why Jackson and Rose should never get into the HOF.
Thanks for posting it, Shawn, and a fine job piecing together the history of it. If you haven't read The Fix is In then by all means get a copy.
FW
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Agree with rose but shoeless is innocent...
Many of the other seven said late in their lives that joe was not in the fix meetings...his name was used to lend more credibility to the plot, but he wasn't involved....just because of a few anecdotal comments outside the courthouse, history believes joe was guilty...
Not to mention his performance in the series clearly shows he was the best
Player othe field still.... Also in eight men out, Asinof left out many facts that would have contradicted his guilty thesis....