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EPISODE · Aug 12, 2026 · 19 MIN

Say It Aint So...

from Beyond The Trophy · host Beyond the Trophy hosted by Andrew Bailey

In 1919, the best team in baseball walked onto the sport’s biggest stage.Some of them had already agreed to lose.What followed became one of the greatest scandals in sporting history: gamblers, missing confessions, a rigged World Series and eight players banished from baseball for life. At the centre of it all was Shoeless Joe Jackson, one of the most gifted hitters the game had ever seen.But more than a century later, one question still refuses to disappear.Was Joe Jackson a cheat who betrayed his sport, or a man destroyed by a system that had already betrayed him?And in 2025, baseball made a decision that changed his story all over again.SAY IT AIN’T SOA story about money, power, corruption, fallen heroes and the scandal that forced an entire sport to confront what happens when fans can no longer trust what they are watching.The game is what you see. This is everything you don’t.

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