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Old Joe remembers "a spraddle-legged hitter who looked good" whom Joe taught to change his tactics to pivot hitting. "He's the only fellow I ever tried to convert to the style who jumped onto the ideas in a minute. He was a young fellow named Babe Ruth who wanted to learn."

— Shoeless Joe Jackson

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God knows I gave my best in baseball at all times and no man on earth can truthfully judge me otherwise.

I handled 30 balls in the outfield and never made an error or allowed a man to take an extra base.

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If I had been the kind of fellow who brooded when things went wrong, I probably would have gone out of my mind when Judge Landis ruled me out of baseball.

This is the Truth! (1949)

I guess right here is a good place for me to get the record straight on how I got to be "Shoeless Joe."

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I was found innocent, and I was still banned for life.

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