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  1.                                  Joe JacksonΓÇÖs slashing 
  2.                                  swing of his famous bat, 
  3.                                  ΓÇ£Black Betsy," made him 
  4.                                  one of the greatest 
  5.                                  players in baseball, but 
  6. you wonΓÇÖt find him in the National Baseball 
  7. Hall of Fame. 
  8.  
  9. ΓÇ£Shoeless Joe" -- as he was called because 
  10. he played barefoot in the minors -- and 
  11. seven of his Chicago White Sox teammates
  12. were accused of accepting money from
  13. gamblers to lose the 1919 World Series to 
  14. the Cincinnati Reds. They were tried in court
  15. and found innocent, but the baseball
  16. commissioner, wanting to keep the sport 
  17. from being tainted, banned Joe and his
  18. teammates from baseball forever. 
  19.