Red Sox wisely took less is more approach with new uniforms https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/36434/ #AlternateUniforms #Baseball #BostonRedSox #CityConnect #FenwayGreens #HallOfFame #jerseys #MLB #PeteRose #RedSox #ShoelessJoeJackson #uniforms
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‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson’s saga could finally come to an end https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/27280/ #Baseball #BlackSox #BlackSoxScandal #BudSelig #Chicago #ChicagoTribune #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox #FieldOfDreams #KenesawMountainLandis #MLB #PeteRose #RobManfred #ShoelessJoeJackson #SportsGambling #WhiteSox #WhiteSox
What to know about the World Series scandal https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/27063/ #1919BlackSox #1919WorldSeries #Baseball #BlackSox #BuckWeaver #CharlesComiskey #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox #MLB #ShoelessJoeJackson #WhiteSox #WhiteSox
Pete Rose, with ruling, could join Pujols in Hall in 2028 https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/25305/ #AlbertPujols #BallAndBatGames #Baseball #BaseballTeams #BlackSoxScandal #Cardinals #CincinnatiReds #cooperstown #DerrickGoold #HallOfFame #JoeJackson #MajorLeagueBaseball #MajorLeagueBaseballTeams #MLB #NationalBaseballHallOfFameAndMuseum #OutdoorSports #PeteRose #ProBaseball #Reds #RobManfred #ShoelessJoeJackson #Sports #St.Louis #St.LouisCardinals #StLouis #StLouisCardinals #TeamSports #TurfSports #YadierMolina
Pete Rose and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson — longstanding pariahs in MLB due to their involvement with gambling on the sport — have been removed from MLB's permanently ineligible list. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/sports/2025/05/14/baseball/mlb/rose-jackson-mlb-ban-list/?utm_medium=Social&utm_source=mastodon #baseball #mlb #robmanfred #peterose #shoelessjoejackson #gambling #us
Pete Rose saga will likely end with the Hall of Fame https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/25028/ #Baseball #BaseballHallOfFame #BlackSox #Cincinnati #CincinnatiReds #CincinnatiReds #DonaldTrump #MLB #PeteRose #Reds #RonManfred #ShoelessJoeJackson
Odd Timing for MLB’s Reinstatement of Pete Rose and the Black Sox https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/25011/ #ArnoldRothstein #Baseball #BaseballHallOfFame #CincinnatiReds #JosephJeffersonJackson #KennesawMountainLandis #MLB #PeteRose #PeteRoseJr #ShoelessJoeJackson #SleepyBillBurns #WhiteSox #WillVenable
In other news about people with links to Chicago and 1910s New Orleans.... disgraced baseball great Shoeless Joe Jackson, seen here at Pelican Park, New Orleans, 1910 shortly before he went into the major league, has been removed from Major League Baseball's ineligible list, allowing him to be considered for induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame.
New from Dugout Dirt: Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe Jackson Lifetime Bans Lifted by MLB
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https://dugoutdirt.com/2025/05/13/pete-rose-shoeless-joe-jackson-bans/
MLB Reinstates Legends Pete Rose and Shoeless Joe Jackson https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/24651/ #Baseball #MajorLeagueBaseball #MLB #PeteRose #ShoelessJoeJackson
MLB reinstates Pete Rose, ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson of Chicago White Sox, making them Hall of Fame eligible https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/24582/ #16405489 #Baseball #HallOfFame #MLB #PeteRose #PeteRoseBanned #PeteRoseNews #PeteRoseReinstated #ShoelessJoeJackson
‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson, Pete Rose reinstated by MLB Commissioner https://www.rawchili.com/mlb/24556/ #1919BlackSox #1919WorldSeries #Baseball #BlackSoxScandal #Chicago #ChicagoWhiteSox #ChicagoWhiteSox #CommissionerRobManfred #MLB #MLBBaseball #PeteRose #ShoelessJoeJackson #SportsGambling #WhiteSox #WhiteSox
Yes, I am sad that Pete Rose passed away. He was a legend and he was a great. I first remember him when he played in the 1980 World Series with the Phillies. When I was 11-12 years old I played on a Little League team called the Reds, and Rose earned his legendary status playing for the Cincinnati Reds. All of that. More hits than any player in history. Legend.
He also bet on baseball games. He claims he never threw a game and he only bet on his own team. He was banned from Major League Baseball for life and good riddance. He always came off to me as if he were an insufferable prick and I had no problem with the ban. No Hall of Fame for Charlie Hustle, even though he does hold the MLB record for hits.
Now that he’s passed, and it is sad that he’s passed for sure, the conversation is going to happen again. Should his ban be lifted and should he be allowed into the Hall of Fame.
I say no. As long as Shoeless Joe Jackson remains banned for betting on baseball, specifically as a member of the 1919 Chicago Black Sox team that threw the World Series (against the Cincinnati Reds, of course) then Pete Rose remains banned too. Rose was a brilliant player but by all accounts he wasn’t even close to as good as Jackson (who was a .400 hitter one season). Who knows what Joe could have accomplished if he’d been allowed to play out his full career. There is also very little evidence of him actually participating in rigging games. Hell, he had a great series in 1919 when his co-conspirators were clearly tanking.
If they lift the ban on Joe Jackson then we can talk about lifting the ban on Pete Rose. Before then? I don’t give a shit what anyone says about Rose. If Jackson remains out then Rose remains out. That’s how it needs to be.
I have spoken.
https://robertjames1971.blog/2024/10/01/pete-rose/
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Today in Labor History September 28, 1920: Eight members of the Chicago White Sox were indicted by a grand jury for conspiring with gamblers to throw the 1919 World Series in what became known as the Black Sox Scandal. The players were acquitted by the jury, but they were still banned for life from professional baseball by Major League Baseball’s first commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, thus ruining their careers. Yet New York gangster, Arnold Rothstein, who orchestrated the Black Sox scandal, was never punished. The biggest loser in the Black Sox case was probably Shoeless Joe Jackson. Had he not been banned for life, he might have gone on to become one of the greatest hitters of all time, possibly even better than Ty Cobb. Jackson hit .408 in 1911, his rookie year. Babe Ruth said he modeled his batting style after Jackson. Landis, like Cobb, was a virulent racist, but with the power to actively upheld the league’s ban on black players.
Landis was also famous for fining Standard Oil $29 million (that would be nearly $1 billion in today’s dollars). John D. Rockefeller, owner of Standard Oil, said Landis would be dead long before he paid the fine. He was right. A court of appeals reversed the fine in 1908. Landis was also infamous for persecuting leftists and labor leaders (mostly foreign-born socialists, anarchists and Wobblies), including Big Bill Haywood, of the IWW, for resisting World War One. Landis referred to the leftist defendants as "scum," "filth," and "slimy rats." Haywood received a 20-year sentence, jumped bail, and fled to the Soviet Union, where he remained until his death. He is one of two Americans buried in the Kremlin wall, along with communist journalist John Reed. Haywood kept a portrait of Landis on his apartment wall, in Moscow, quite likely so he could spit on it each day. Reed, who covered the war resisters’ trial, wrote the following about Landis:
“Small on the huge bench sits a wasted man with untidy white hair, an emaciated face in which two burning eyes are set like jewels, parchment-like skin split by a crack for a mouth; the face of Andrew Jackson three years dead ... Upon this man has devolved the historic role of trying the Social Revolution. He is doing it like a gentleman. In many ways a most unusual trial. When the judge enters the court-room after recess, no one rises—he himself has abolished the pompous formality. He sits without robes, in an ordinary business suit, and often leaves the bench to come down and perch on the step of the jury box. By his personal orders, spittoons are placed by the prisoners' seats ... and as for the prisoners themselves, they are permitted to take off their coats, move around, read newspapers. It takes some human understanding for a Judge to fly in the face of judicial ritual as much as that.”
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Autographed 1911 Photo of ‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson Sells for $1.47 Million
An autographed photograph from 1911 of baseball legend "Shoeless" Joe Jackson has sold at auction for a staggering price of $1.47 million, making it one of the most valuable photos in the world.
The photo was included in a Christie's and Hunt Auctions live auction titled "Extra Innings: A Private Collection of Important Baseball Memorabilia," which closed on October 6th. The photo's lot, titled "Exceedingly Scarce and Important 1911 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson Autographed Photograph by Frank W. Smith," had a pre-auction estimate of $200,000 to $400,000.
Joe Jackson started playing baseball at the age of 13 in 1900, and his talent for the game was clear from the get-go. He went from the rural sandlot fields of South Carolina through the major leagues until he eventually joined the Chicago White Sox and won a World Championship in 1917.
"Shoeless" is said to have become Jackson's nickname after he took off his shoes due to blisters during a game in 1908 and then proceeded to hit a home run. It was the only time he was known to have played without shoes.
Jackson's skill with the bat was so exceptional that even Babe Ruth, considered by many to be the greatest baseball player of all time, looked up to Jackson.
"I copied Jackson's style because I thought he was the greatest hitter I had ever seen, the greatest natural hitter I ever saw," Ruth once said. "He's the guy who made me a hitter."
Shoeless Joe Jackson in 1913 as a member of the Cleveland Naps. He is seen holding his baseball bat named "Black Betsy."
At the end of his 13-year career, Jackson had a .517 slugging percentage and a lifetime batting average of .356, ranking him 3rd in Major League Baseball history.
Jackson was banned from playing baseball after 1920 in the aftermath of the Black Sox Scandal in which eight White Sox players (including Jackson) were implicated in fixing the 1919 World Series.
"Legend has it that as he was leaving the courthouse after giving his testimony and admitting to some form of involvement in the fix, a boy yelled out 'Say it ain’t so, Joe! Say it ain’t so!'" writes the National Baseball Hall of Fame. "[…] Joe Jackson represented the humble, working-class American and played with tremendous pride while experiencing a great amount of success over the duration of his career. Though Jackson is ineligible for the Hall of Fame, the Museum does honor his excellence by showcasing and preserving a number of his artifacts."
In March of 1911, photographer Frank W. Smith captured Jackson in a throwing pose during spring training in Alexandria, Louisiana. The 8×10-inch photograph was then signed by Jackson, and it is now considered to be the only authentic photo signed by the legend in existence, according to Christie's.
A closer look at the one-of-a-kind photo.
"Image quality is outstanding with minimal surface wear and no mentionable defects," Christie's writes of the photo in the auction lot's essay. "Blank back has four small paper residue spots at the corners from scrapbook adhesion mentioned for accuracy only. Front of the image has been boldy signed by Jackson in black fountain pen rating 9 out of 10.
"'Alexandria Mar 1911' inscription added by Smith, as is seen on several other Cleveland images from the archive. Jackson's labored and primitive signature formation is immediately recognizable due to his inability to formally read or write.
"As a result of Jackson's relative illiteracy there are scant few authentic examples of his autograph known to exist. To date, the offered Jackson signed image is the lone surviving example of any type. Based on the scarcity of signed images from this period, in general, coupled with the minuscule population of original Jackson autographs we cannot overstate the rarity of this offering."
"Just his signature on a slip of paper is worth $50,000 to $100,000," Lelands Auctions President Mike Heffner tells ESPN.
It seems collectors agree with the rarity and value of the photo, as they ended up pushing the final price to over 3.5 times the upper range of the presale estimate.
The photograph previously appeared in an auction by Heritage Auctions back in 2015, and it sold that time for $179,250. Six years later, the photo is now over 700% more valuable.
The latest $1.47 million price is now the new record for a signed sports photo, and it was about $600,000 shy of landing the image on the list of 30 most expensive photographs ever.
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