Historical Event Essay: Shoeless Joe Jackson And Baseball
Historical Event Essay
“On October 9, 1919”, (The Black) “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and eight other “Black Sox” players were reported to have thrown the game against the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. Within the next month’s reports emerged that quite a few gamblers had paid several White Sox players to intentionally loose games. Unfortunately, news of these reports led to their trial, which prohibited the eight players from every playing baseball again.
Major players included: "Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams." (Google) Furthermore, there is one player in particular that really just sticks out, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. Jackson was just one of the major players that were reported to have thrown games for money but before he gave into the gambling life he had a good reputation on his shoulders. Jackson, like many others grew up in a "hard life of southern poverty." (Shoeless) At the age of six Jackson started working at "Pelzer Mill sweeping cotton dust off the wooden floors." (Shoeless) Around "1901" (Shoeless) Jackson began working at "Brandon Mill" (Shoeless) and …show more content…
It’s a place where people can escape their houses and escape outside to find their selves in a stadium filled with people enjoying a baseball game. What really makes baseball and of course baseball history so interesting and fun is the environment, it’s an environment like no other. Baseball players are a different kind of famous, there completely different from actors and actresses. Baseball players are people who stand out, they aren’t chosen by the quality of their voice or the way they present themselves on TV and not even by how they look but how they are athletes and how they play on the
“On October 9, 1919”, (The Black) “Shoeless” Joe Jackson and eight other “Black Sox” players were reported to have thrown the game against the Cincinnati Reds and the Chicago White Sox. Within the next month’s reports emerged that quite a few gamblers had paid several White Sox players to intentionally loose games. Unfortunately, news of these reports led to their trial, which prohibited the eight players from every playing baseball again.
Major players included: "Eddie Cicotte, Happy Felsch, Chick Gandil, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, Fred McMullin, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver and Lefty Williams." (Google) Furthermore, there is one player in particular that really just sticks out, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. Jackson was just one of the major players that were reported to have thrown games for money but before he gave into the gambling life he had a good reputation on his shoulders. Jackson, like many others grew up in a "hard life of southern poverty." (Shoeless) At the age of six Jackson started working at "Pelzer Mill sweeping cotton dust off the wooden floors." (Shoeless) Around "1901" (Shoeless) Jackson began working at "Brandon Mill" (Shoeless) and …show more content…
It’s a place where people can escape their houses and escape outside to find their selves in a stadium filled with people enjoying a baseball game. What really makes baseball and of course baseball history so interesting and fun is the environment, it’s an environment like no other. Baseball players are a different kind of famous, there completely different from actors and actresses. Baseball players are people who stand out, they aren’t chosen by the quality of their voice or the way they present themselves on TV and not even by how they look but how they are athletes and how they play on the