Talk:Shoeless Joe Jackson

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[edit] World Series Games

Not really sure about the actual facts, but in the article it claims that in the /five games/ the Sox lost, he didn't have an RBI. You can't lose 5 games in a World Series. Perhaps the author means four, or maybe the five games of the World Series, of which the Sox lost four... etc. Perhaps it's technically correct, but the wording is a little ambiguous.

They used to play nine games. RickK | Talk 06:54, 22 Mar 2004 (UTC)

That is correct. For the year of the Black Sox scandal, the Series went to the "best of nine" format which had been used in 1903 and 1905. The Sox lost five games to three.

I am not sure why the format changed, but in any event, it went back to the best of 7 in 1920 and has remained that way since. 209.149.235.254 16:05, 4 Apr 2004 (UTC)

In 1919 the World Series was best of 9 games.

excerpt from World Series article:

except in 1903, 1919, 1920 and 1921 when the winner was determined through a best-of-nine playoff