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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.
 
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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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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Williams included the unfairly banished Shoeless Joe Jackson in his Ted Williams Museum and Hitters Hall of Fame,<ref>https://muse.jhu.edu/article/651092/pdf</ref> but sadly it closed its doors in 2002 after Williams passed away.<ref>
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