This song is about the Black Sox Scandal, in which several baseball players in the Chicago White Sox - including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson - were convinced to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series for gambling purposes. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner, banned them from the sport in 1920.
This song is about the Black Sox Scandal, in which several baseball players in the Chicago White Sox - including "Shoeless" Joe Jackson - were convinced to intentionally lose the 1919 World Series for gambling purposes. Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, baseball's first commissioner, banned them from the sport in 1920.
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