Michael Friendly (@datavisfriendly.bsky.social)

While there's still some #baseball fever: Shoeless Joe Jackson was reinstated by #MLB May '25, making him eligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. All the data from the 1919 World Series I reviewed showed w/o a doubt he was innocent of the charge of throwing the series.

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Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919 World Series? on JSTOR Jay Bennett, Did Shoeless Joe Jackson Throw the 1919 World Series?, The American Statistician, Vol. 47, No. 4 (Nov., 1993), pp. 241-250 https://bit.ly/3SEOGde

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