Jackson's Rhetorical Analysis Of 'This Is The Truth'

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The article “This is the Truth” was written by Sports Magazine in the 1950s to tell Jackson's side of the Black Sox Scandal. He wanted to release this article so that MLB fans everywhere could hear his side of the story and what happened behind the scenes. Jackson explains in this article that he has no regrets of anything that happened in his MLB career and was not that worried about being banned for life. He felt as if his baseball career was a success in the thirteen years he played. Ethos is being used in this article simply because Jackson himself is telling the story of how he is innocent and what really happened. Jackson explains how he was not involved in any of this scandal and tells the audience reading who was involved and why. In this article there are facts about his batting average, game errors, and money received all of the internet. After being placed on the ineligible list for baseball Jackson has no reason to lie about what happened and that's what makes this information in this article so valuable. …show more content…
He explains that he was innocent by giving us his batting average for the world series which was above a .400 which is really good and by having little to no errors in the entire series. If he were trying to throw the World Series with both of those he wouldn't have been doing a very good job. Everyone thought he had something to do with this scandal because he didn't really try to get back into the MLB. The reason for that is because he didn't care for going back to the Major leagues is because he already owned business in savannah georgia and later on