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Campaign to exonerate Shoeless Joe Jackson

CHICAGO (AP) — The kid pleading with Shoeless Joe Jackson to "say it ain't so" is one of the most fabled stories in baseball, but is the lore surrounding the infamous Black Sox scandal of 1919 really true?

Two Chicago attorneys have combed through the papers of the late Eliot Asinof, whose book "Eight Men Out" portrayed Jackson as a cheat, one of the Chicago White Sox players who accepted...

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