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What did Shoeless Joe Jackson do that led to his lifetime ban from baseball?
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Shoeless Joe Jackson threw the 1919 World Series. Jackson and his seven teammates were acquitted of wrongdoing by a Chicago jury in 1921. Nevertheless, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the newly appointed Commissioner of Baseball, imposed a lifetime ban on all eight players. "Regardless of the verdict of juries," Landis declared, "no player that throws a ballgame; no player that undertakes or promises to throw a ballgame; no player that sits in a conference with a bunch of crooked