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Arpaio endorses Ducey: “Say it ain’t so, Joe”
Chicago White Sox outfielder Joe Jackson (1887 – 1951) —- nicknamed “Shoeless Joe” —- was a Major League baseball legend in the early part of the 20th century. He earned the name “Shoeless,” after playing a minor league game in his stockings because a new pair of spikes had given him blisters on his feet the previous day.
Generations later, Jackson is remembered both for his stellar performances on the field and for his alleged association with the Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the 1919 Chicago White Sox shockingly participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series. As a result of Jackson’s association with the scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, MLB’s first commissioner, imposed a lifetime ban on Jackson and seven other Chicago players implicated in the scandal. Although a Chicago jury acquitted the popular Jackson, the ban remained.
The line, “Say it ain’t so, Joe,” will forever be associated with Jackson, but we’re hearing versions of it from many corners today after Arizona’s legendary Sheriff Joe Arpaio, stunned with his endorsement of establishment gubernatorial pick, Doug Ducey.
Source: http://seeingredaz.wordpress.com/2014/08/01/arpaio-endorses-ducey-say-it-aint-so-joe/
