Shoeless Joe Jackson Reinstatement Denied by MLB

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Shoeless Joe Jackson Reinstatement Denied by MLB - by Eric Stephen/ MLB/ SBNation/ sbnation.com

"Say it ain't so, Rob Manfred.

Shoeless Joe Jackson was banned from baseball in 1921, along with a group of Chicago White Sox players, for conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series. When news broke earlier on Monday that new MLB commissioner Manfred responded to an inquiry to get Jackson reinstated, there was some hope that Jackson might eventually have a shot at the Hall of Fame.

But that won't happen.

Arlene Marcley, the president and curator of the Joe Jackson Museum in Greenville, S.C., said she received a response from Manfred and would announce the results on the museum's Facebook page on Tuesday, per USA Today.

But any rumors of Jackson getting reinstated, which would make him eligible for the Hall of Fame, were quickly shot down by Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times..."

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Shoeless Joe Jackson won't be making the Hall of Fame anytime soon after his case for reinstatement into MLB was denied by commissioner Rob Manfred.


Richard

 

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Commissioners don't like going against the decisions of previous office holders.
If the All Time Hit holder can't make the Hall for gambling; then certainly a great player can't make the Hall for throwing the championship.