Museum starts petition to clear Shoeless Joe's name!!! (IF you build it, he will come)

[Omaha Steve]

Video clip from "Field of Drams" at bottom of post.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/story/sports/2015/02/19/museum-starts-petition-clear-shoeless-joes-name/23688305/

Mandrallius Robinson, 5:03 p.m. EST February 19, 2015

Arlene Marcley insists that 94 years has been long enough. Marcley, the president of the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in Downtown Greenville, is pushing for a pardon.

On behalf of the museum, Marcley started an online petition at change.org to encourage new Major League Baseball commissioner Rob Manfred to remove Jackson's name from the league's ineligible list.

Jackson, a Greenville native, played for three MLB teams from 1908 to 1920. He compiled a career batting average of .356 with 529 extra-base hits on 4,981 at-bats. He recorded 785 RBI with an on-base percentage of .423 and a slugging percentage of .517.

Despite those figures, Jackson is not in the National Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1921, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first MLB commissioner, banned Jackson and seven of his Chicago White Sox teammates for allegedly conspiring to fix the 1919 World Series.

FULL story at link. For more information on the museum's cause, visit the change.org petition page: https://www.change.org/p/commissioner-of-baseball-rob-manfred-remove-the-name-of-joe-jackson-from-major-league-baseball-s-ineligible-list


Here is the LBN story about one of his autographs coming up for auction: http://www.democraticunderground.com/10141009820




(Photo: AP Photo)

[H. Cromwell]

1. IF they clear him

Pete Rose gets in too.