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Sanfratello’s remembers dark day in Chicago history with commemorative pizza

Chicago White Sox baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson shocked the world when admitting he was part of the 1919 plan "to fix" the World Series. Sanfratello's honors the anniversary with a White Sox pizza.

September 25, 2015

Chicago-based Sanfratello’s Pizza is remembering Chicago White Sox baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson on the anniversary of "the cry heard ‘round the baseball world": "Say it ain’t so, Joe!" with a commemorative large pizza topped with black olives in the shape of a black sock.

On Sept. 28, 1920, Jackson (a lifetime .356 hitter), confessed that he was a party to the conspiracy to "fix" the 1919 World Series, in Which Jackson’s Chicago White Sox faced the Cincinnati Reds. According to the release, when Jackson left the criminal court building in custody of a sheriff after telling his story to the grand jury, he found several hundred youngsters, age 6 to 16, waiting for a glimpse of their idol. One child stepped up to the outfielder, and, grabbing his coat sleeve, said: "It ain't true, is it, Joe?" Joe replied that it was. The "Say it ain't so, Joe" story remains part of baseball lore.

The pizza is available for $25 at the Highland, Indiana, location, at 9400 Indianapolis Blvd., Monday, Sept. 28, only, according to a company press release.