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{{cquote|[I]mmortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. '''''Gods do not answer letters'''''.<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/10/22/hub-fans-bid-kid-adieu (emphasis added).</ref>}}
 
{{cquote|[I]mmortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. '''''Gods do not answer letters'''''.<ref>https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1960/10/22/hub-fans-bid-kid-adieu (emphasis added).</ref>}}
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== Attempts to Correct Injustice ==
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Ted Williams worked tirelessly to correct the injustice against [[Joe Jackson|"Shoeless Joe" Jackson]], who was one of baseball's greatest players but was unfairly banished for life from the game due to a [[gambling]] conspiracy by others in the 1919 [[World Series]].  Joe Jackson himself performed in record-breaking fashion during the series and did not underperform in any way to lose any game.
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Williams was outspoken in an unsuccessful effort, which including gathering 60,000 petitions in support of Jackson, to make the indisputably talented Jackson eligible for induction into the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]].<ref>https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-1998-03-08-9803080238-story.html</ref>
 
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