1. Joe Jackson
... His arm was so strong that he once pitched a ball that broke his catcher's arm ("Joe Jackson"). In 1906, Joe was being recruited by a semiprofessional baseball team, the Greenville Near-Leaguers. While playing for them he continued to work at the Brandon Mill to help support his parents ("Joe Jackson"). In ... games (Eight Men Out). The eight players suspected were Eddie Cicotte, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Oscar "HAP" Felsch, Charles "Swede" Resberg, George "Buck" Weaver, Arnold Gandil, Claude Williams and Fed McMullin. All eight players were found guilty and banned from baseball for life ...
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