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In two years, he had risen from a poor millhand to the rank of a player in the major leagues. The ignorant mill boy had become the hero of millions. Out on the hot prairies, teams of "Joe Jacksons" battled desperately with the "Ty Cobbs". There came a day when a crook spread money before this ignorant idol and he fell. For a few dollars, which perhaps seemed like a fortune to him, he sold his honor...
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Hugh Fullerton for New York Evening World (30 September 1920), as quoted in, The Faith of Fifty Million : Baseball, Religion, and American Culture (2002) by Christopher Hodge Evans and William R. Herzog ISBN 0664223052), p. 100

 

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