In centenary year, pressure on to reverse one of sport’s greatest miscarriages

We’ve just re-watched the thought-provoking 1989 movie Field of Dreams, a heartwarming tale focused on a couple of complicated relationships – one between Kevin Costner’s character and his estranged late father; the other, drawn from real life, about the disgraced baseball great “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.

This being the 100th anniversary of the event where the scandal started, there’s sure to be lots of debate about Jackson in baseball crazy America. Especially as most pundits, including the authors of numerous books on the subject, believe he was unfairly punished by the heavy hand of the sport’s first commissioner.

Jackson, who has the third highest batting average in baseball history, was banned for life along with seven other members of the Chicago White Sox team which lost the finals of the 1919 World Series. He maintained his innocence, although apparently did once admit to accepting $5,000, the bribe paid by gamblers to players who confessed their involvement.

Years later, the other seven players all said Jackson was not in on the “fix”, that his name was thrown in to get credibility with their paymasters. But officialdom has not exonerated Jackson, who is still excluded from the sport’s Hall of Fame. Much has changed in a century. Thankfully, that includes the now established principle of innocent until proven guilty.

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