>>I was reading in David Fleitz's book: SHOELESS, on the Grand
>>Jury chapter (to answer an anti Jackson poster on another
>>board), and there was a section that makes me wonder. It
>>seems that after Joe finished up at the Grand Jury meeting,
>>he went out and got drunk, and reporters were buzzing all
>>around him. It seems, according to Fleitz, that Jackson was
>>saying he was promised 15,000 more dollars from the fixers,
>>but he never saw it. As Fleitz mentions, there was no way to
>>tell how drunk Jackson was, but I am wondering, is Fleitz
>>correct in his rehashing this incident, or, is he just
>>guestimating his way through this? Joe's behavior in the
>>Grand Jury room with the manipulator, Alfred Austrian, shows
>>that Jackson admitted to nothing in the way of throwing
>>games, yet, after he left the Grand Jury room, it seems he
>>was telling a different story, what is Fleitz getting at
>>here???
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>We do not remember reading any
>such articles......of course it has been many years since we
>last looked in detail at the Tribune and Daily News
>articles....but those comments do not stick out in our
>minds. We do know that Joe did indeed go out and get
>drunk after the confession.....but we do not know if he did
>that in public or not. Our guess is that Joe would have
>been afraid of the likes of Swede Risberg and probably would
>not have ventured out in public for days after his
>confession. The other side of us says...that even if Joe
>did say those things.....he had reason....and here's one
>offered as food for thought........Joe may have said these
>things to keep the gamblers from killing him.....if the
>gamblers had thought for one moment that Joe took their
>money and did nothing to earn it.....he would not have been
>on this planet long....they would have bumped him off in
>short order and most probably would have killed Katie
>too.....again...there is not fact to back that statement
>up......just a theory we have had for a long time. If
>anyone out there can quote us the source of these comments /
>articles...we'd like to re-visit them.......so let us
>know.

I think this is a reasonable explanation because I seem to recall that Tommy Lasorda more or less said the same thing would happen if Joe tried to put one over on the gamblers, after all, wasn't Lefty Williams wife threatened with death if Williams didn't throw a game?
Even if Fleitz did get his remarks from certain newspaper articles, one has to think about the credibility of the reporters who were trying to outdo each other to get the best scoop(remember the street urchin asking Joe to "say it ain't so"). Possibly, in the days following the scandal, there may have been one or two newspapers that were credible, but I don't know which ones they were, I'd like to think there was at least ONE newspaper that had a good perception of the situation.