Monday, October 25, 2004
Apropos of nothing
In Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups, he makes reference to Shoeless Joe Jackson's "1920 admission that he'd given the Reds several runs with sloppy defense in left field," in the 1919 World Series. Can anyone point out to me any evidence that Jackson admitted any such thing? I ask having already performed a relatively exhaustive Google search on the subject which yielded nothing. Jackson's grand jury testimony, for instance, shows him arguing exactly the opposite point of view. If anyone happens to know what Neyer was talking about, I'd be very interested to know about it.
Rest assured that this is not any kind of preface to me writing anything in advocacy of Joe Jackson's Hall Of Fame candicacy or in the other direction either. Also rest assured that I'll write something about baseball that has happened in this century before too long. I hear the Mets might have themselves a manager soon. ¶ joe | 9:07 PM |
In Rob Neyer's Big Book of Baseball Lineups, he makes reference to Shoeless Joe Jackson's "1920 admission that he'd given the Reds several runs with sloppy defense in left field," in the 1919 World Series. Can anyone point out to me any evidence that Jackson admitted any such thing? I ask having already performed a relatively exhaustive Google search on the subject which yielded nothing. Jackson's grand jury testimony, for instance, shows him arguing exactly the opposite point of view. If anyone happens to know what Neyer was talking about, I'd be very interested to know about it.
Rest assured that this is not any kind of preface to me writing anything in advocacy of Joe Jackson's Hall Of Fame candicacy or in the other direction either. Also rest assured that I'll write something about baseball that has happened in this century before too long. I hear the Mets might have themselves a manager soon. ¶ joe | 9:07 PM |
