Shoeless Joe in the Hall?

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Posted By: Justin

Even Joe Jackson getting to the hall won't change his legacy. He will still be remembered primarily for his role in the fix. It will never be forgotten, and that is the price of his actions. Everyone dies, but their legacies live on. Joe's legacy was that he was a naive hick, with tremendous ability who conspired to throw the world series.

Plus there is a big difference between being punished by a private organization and serving time for breaking the law.

A private organization can set whatever rules it wants and enforce those rules in anyway it wants provided it doesn't infringe on people's rights in the society. Baseball is not a right.

And the issue with Jackson isn't that he threw the world series(it's debatable, and a high batting average doesn't tell the whole story), so much as he took money from gamblers, knew of the fix, sat in on meetings about the fix, and then didn't tell anyone about it. Ditto Buck Weaver(well not the money part but everything else).

That is why Landis banned him. There is nothing honorable about agreeing to throw a game and not throwing it.