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While I appreciate those defenders of Mr. Jackson who feel the need to stop at his .375 average in the Series and declare that it stands as proof of his "innocence", Wikipedia is an unbiased recording of history and thus must allow that recording, to show that he was a much better hitter in the Series when the conspirators were not trying to throw games -- the two Kerr games and the one where Cicotte actually pitched to win (Game 7). In those games, he hit .500, whereas he was a .286 hitter in the five thrown games. Removing that fact biases the reader, when actually deconstructing the game-by-game results makes his participation much more possible. And it is incontrovertibly true that Jackson was paid $5,000. There was no need to have paid him had he been innocent.

In contrast, Buck Weaver, who is generally regarded as to have been at the first meeting but did not participate in the throwing of games and was accordingly not paid a penny, hit slightly better in the thrown games, .333 vs. .308 in the clean games.

The accounting of zero triples to left field prior to my restoring my edit today was simply incorrect. Baseball Register has evaluated ALL contemporary records of the scoring of plays in the Series, and noted two triples hit to left and one to left-center, all of which were in games which were thrown. In one such case, it is well-documented that Christy Mathewson, working with a baseball writer at the time and looking for "hidden errors", as rumors of the Sox throwing the Series were already rampant, noted a triple as attributable to a bit of Alphonse and Gaston involving Jackson, right after the play occurred.

I've no dog in the fight other than to oppose the editing out of sourced historical data that contradicts another contributor's fervent opinions. That has happened with this page far too often. Wikipedia is better than that.