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Joe Jackson Subpoena, 1920

Joe Jackson Subpoena, 1920
The White Sox scandal continued into 1921 when eight players were tried for fraud in an effort to make baseball respectable again. This criminal subpoena mandated left fielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson's presence before the grand jury. Although the eight players were acquitted in 1921, baseball commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis, formerly a federal judge in Chicago, banned them from professional baseball.