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From: rupp@noscvax.UUCP (William L. Rupp)
Newsgroups: net.sport.baseball
Subject: Re: Shoeless Joe Jackson
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Date: Thu, 6-Mar-86 13:29:03 EST
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I think that Shoeless Joe Jackson should be included in the Hall of Fame, even
if in a special `purgatory wing'.  A couple of comments.  First, will Dave 
Parker, Keith Hernandez and others who have been accused of drug problems be
barred because of those troubles?  Second, a recent inductee (is that the
right word) to the Hall of Fame has been accused of racism for his outrageous
treatment of Jackie Robinson in 1947, including attempting deliberately
to spike and seriously wound Robinson.  That didn't keep him out.

On the other hand, Jackson's early banning from baseball clearly helped keep
his lifetime batting average higher than it probably would have been had he
played five or six more years.