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"Say it ain't so, Joe" is the saddest phrase in the long drama that is America's national pastime. This enduring lament, uttered by a small boy tugging on the sleeve of his hero, the great Shoeless Joe Jackson, captured the anguish of fans of the 1919 Chicago White Sox. Shoeless Joe was coming out of a Chicago courthouse in 1920, having testified of his role in accepting a bribe to throw the World Series. A great darkness had settled on America's pastime as fans across the country wished that somehow, it just wasn't so, that the sun would rise on a new morning, and it would turn out that one of the greatest teams in baseball was not populated by crooks.