Biggest Scandals in Sports

Biggest Scandals in Sports — page 1
CHAPTER 1 BLACK SHEEP OF BASEBALL Baseball player Joe Jackson once wore only socks for a minor league game because his shoes weren’t broken in A reporter at the game gave him the nickname Shoeless Joe Jackson didn’t like the nickname but it stuck Jackson played 13 seasons in the major leagues He had a lifetime batting average of 356 which is the third-best of any player in Major League Baseball MLB history Many people believe Jackson should be in the Baseball Hall of Fame But he might never be because he was banned from baseball for life Jackson played for the Chicago White Sox in 1919 The White Sox were the American League champions and were heavily favored to win the World Series When they lost to the Cincinnati Reds many in the baseball world thought there was something suspicious about the outcome Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of several White Sox players implicated in the Black Sox Scandal