The Fix

About the show

In 1919, Shoeless Joe Jackson reluctantly joins a conspiracy to throw the World Series after his teammates frame it as a way to challenge miserly owner Charles Comiskey. Joe has second thoughts and urges the others to play to win, but gamblers threaten his wife Katie, and Lefty Williams agrees to lose the next game. A year later, rumors haunt the team. Joe confesses to Katie, who persuades him to tell the truth. The scandal breaks; the players are acquitted at trial but Commissioner Landis bans them for life. Years later, former catcher Ray Schalk tells reporter Ring Lardner that Joe manages a small store in South Carolina. In a flashback, Joe, aged and ashamed, avoids acknowledging his old teammate.