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I guess the biggest joke of all was that story that got out about "Say it ain't so, Joe." Charley Owens of the Chicago Daily News was responsible for that, but there wasn't a bit of truth in it.

— Shoeless Joe Jackson This is the Truth! (1949)

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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.

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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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