showHide_TellMeAbout2('false'); Business Entertainment Games Health ... More... On this page: Dictionary Encyclopedia Wikipedia Mentioned In Or search: - The Web - Images - News - Blogs - Shopping Shoeless Joe Jackson Dictionary Jackson Joseph Jefferson (Known as âShoeless Joe.â) 1889â1951. American baseball player who had a career batting average of .356, batting over .370 four times and .408 in 1911. In 1921 he and eight teammates from the Chicago White Sox were banned from baseball for life for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series. Encyclopedia Jackson, Shoeless Joe (Joseph Jefferson Jackson), 1887â1951, American baseball player, b. Brandon Mills, S.C. Holder of the third highest (.356) career batting average in major league history, Jackson was banned from baseball in 1921 for his part in the 1919 Black Sox scandal . He is said to have been too unsophisticated to have fully appreciated the circumstances, and in fact batted .375 during the World Series he was said to have conspired to lose. A tearful young fan is said to have exhorted him to âSay it ain't so, Joe!â Wikipedia Shoeless Joe Jackson Shoeless Joe Jackson, 1919 | |
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