One of sports’ greatest mysteries has been the who, how and why of the “Black Sox Scandal,” involving some Chicago White Sox players who fixed the outcome of the 1919 World Series. And, in particular, there has been significant debate over the role of Sox star outfielder “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
A long-lost 100-year-old trial transcript was just published – that fewer than 10 people alive had seen -- that its editors say clears up a lot of the mystery surrounding the scandal and leaves no doubt that “Shoeless” Joe was squarely involved.
I had the chance to interview the book’s co-editors David Fletcher and Jacob Pomrenke -- baseball historians and authorities on the Black Sox Scandal -- about the significance of the 1,700 page transcript in the 1924 trial in Joe Jackson v. Chicago American League Baseball Club.
I hope you’ll check out the piece that I did for the ABA Journal:
https://www.abajournal.com/columns/article/long-lost-trial-transcript-answers-many-questions-about-shoeless-joe-jackson-and-baseballs-black-sox-scandal
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