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Originally Posted by Colts And Orioles

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Joe Jackson never bet on baseball games, nor was he ever accused of betting on baseball games.

And if you read my OP, you would see that he not only did not want to play in the World Series when he found out that it was fixed (he was coerced into playing by his manager), but he also tried to give the $5,000 that he received from his teammate Lefty Williams (money that he didn't ask for, and that he didn't want) back to Charlie Comiskey (the team owner) and tell him all about what happened and what his teammates had done, but Comiskey had his secretary (Harry Grabiner) intercept him at the door and refused to see him or talk to him ...... even though Comiskey had made a public announcement that he was giving a $10,000 reward for anybody with any knowledge of the fix.

Meanwhile Comiskey himself, whose abusive treatment of his players set the tone for the fix in the first place, and who ignored pleas (and information) from Jackson himself in regard to the fix, is in the Hall-of-Fame.

Also, Ty Cobb and Tris Speaker were permitted by Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis to resign from their player-manager posts near the end of the 1926 season after former pitcher Dutch Leonard charged that Cobb, Speaker, and Smoky Joe Wood had joined him just before the 1919 World Series in betting on a game they all knew was fixed. Leonard presented letters and other documents to Commissioner Landis President and AL President Ban Johnson, and Johnson thought they would be so potentially damaging to baseball in the wake of the Black Sox scandal that he paid Leonard $20,000 to have them suppressed. Landis, who proposed to have a "zero tolerance policy" when he was hired as the Commissioner of MLB in direct response to the Black Sox scandal, did everything that he could to cover up and gloss over the Ty Cobb/Tris Speaker/Smoky Joe Wood incident for fear that the American public would be completely disillusioned about the authenticity of the game, because it would have been the second major game-fixing scandal in the same time period of time.

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I understand. But if you give a cheater an out, others see a way around the rules.

They hold back players like Gil Hodges, who played the game right, and was a great teacher of the game