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Officially, but that doesn't mean that there wasn't an agreement to not put people on the banned list in. It's not like the sports writers or Veteran's committee had some special insight to the situation.

1 There is no evidence or hint of any secret agreement. He was on ballots just never got enough votes.

2 Writers and ex players who traveled on the same trains and stayed in the same hotels on road trips as the team, have way more insight than posters on a message board 97 years after the fact.

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Posted by molsusports

Member since Jul 2004

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Posted on 8/1/16 at 7:14 pm to TigerintheNO

Do you think that understanding the "eight men out" version of history has now been disputed or disproven should be considered? Conventional wisdom can be simply wrong. People can be unpopular for unfair reasons. The movie Amadeus made Salieri out to be a lot of things to which he probably had no resemblance.

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Posted by Wayne Campbell

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Member since Oct 2011

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Posted on 8/1/16 at 9:46 pm to TigerintheNO

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He was on ballots just never got enough votes.

Which is evidence that there was some agreement.

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2 Writers and ex players who traveled on the same trains and stayed in the same hotels on road trips as the team, have way more insight than posters on a message board 97 years after the fact.

And the seven guys he was accused with stated he had nothing to do with it. And he was acquitted in a court of any wrongdoing.

Far more evidence shows he wasn't involved.

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