Shoeless Joe Jackson ranks as one of the greatest baseball players but is not in the Hall of Fame. He was accused of being in on the fix of the 1919 World Series, was eventually acquitted but never made it into the Baseball Hall of Fame. Why? It all came down to fish!
Charles Comiskey, owner of the Chicago White Sox, sent a preseent of two big trout to Ban Johnson, Commissioner of the American league. The fish were packed on ice and sent tin the quickest method at that time, but spoiled before they got to the commissioner. They smelled awful and Johnson always thought that Comiskey had deliberately pulled a joke on on him. This was 1917. Johnson never forgave him even on his deathbed when Comiskey asked for bygones to be bygones. Johnson turned his head and refused to speak to him. Johnson was the person who ruled Shoeless Joe Jackson ineligible for the Baseball Hall of Fame. He wanted to make sure he got back at Comiskey and the White Sox in every way possible. Although Jackson played for 13 years and is considered to be among baseball's greatest players. It has been like he never played at all. Currently the "Shoeless Joe Jackson Hall of Fame" is trying to persuade Major League Baseball to remove him from the ineligible list to make him eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
