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

[Omaha Steve]

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




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Ray (Kevin Costner) hears a whisper in the cornfield urging him to build something.

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"If you build it, he will come." That's the ethereal message that inspires Iowa farmer Ray Kinsella (Kevin Costner) to construct a baseball diamond in the middle of his cornfield. At first, "he" seems to be the ghost of disgraced ballplayer Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta), who materializes on the ballfield and plays a few games with the awestruck Ray. But as the weeks go by, Ray receives several other messages from a disembodied voice, one of which is "Ease his pain." He realizes that his ballfield has been divinely ordained to give a second chance to people who have sacrificed certain valuable aspects of their lives. One of these folks is Salingeresque writer Terence Mann (James Earl Jones), whom Ray kidnaps and takes to a ball game and then to his farm. Another is Doc Graham (Burt Lancaster), a beloved general practitioner who gave up a burgeoning baseball career in favor of medicine. The final "second-chancer" turns out to be much closer to Ray. That "magical" field in Dyersville, Iowa still draws thousands of baseball-happy tourists each year.

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[PatrynXX]

1. Oh Hi, I'm from Iowa

ironic though I was in Lower MN when I fell in love with it, but I was born in Iowa.....