Shoeless

Author:

By David Fleitz

Format:

Paperback

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Price:

£24.99

Tagged with:

Baseball, Biography, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Chicago White Sox

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Further Details

• Published: 30th Mar 2001
• ISBN: 0786409789
• Pages: 320

From Word of Sport:

Shoeless Joe Jackson tends to be defined by the 1919 scandal or by the romantic portrait of him in Field of Dreams. This fine biography redresses the balance, putting his whole life in perspective from his poor beginnings to his big hitting career and his subsequent banishment.

From the Publisher:

Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of baseball's greatest hitters and most colorful players. Born Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson on July 16, 1888, in Pickens County, South Carolina, Jackson went to work in a textile mill when he was around six years old, and got his start in baseball playing for the Brandon Mill team at the age of 13 earning $2.50 a game.

He emerged as the star of the team and a favorite of fans with his hitting and throwing abilities, and moved up to play in the Carolina Association, where he received his nickname Shoeless because the blisters on his feet forced him to play in his stockings. He then made his move to the major leagues, signing on with the Philadelphia Athletics and rising to fame.

This work chronicles Jackson's life from his poor beginnings to his involvement in the scandal surrounding the 1919 World Series to his life after baseball and his death December 5, 1951, with most of the work focusing on his baseball career.

From the Critics:

“undeniably one of America's most remarkable hitters. The 80-year controversy over the scandal and Joe's fiercely loyal fans should provide interest in this new life of Jackson”

Library Journal

“provocative...carefully examines Jackson's life in order to distinguish reality from myth...a fine biography that clears up many of the misconceptions regarding one of baseball's most enduring controversies”

Booklist/RBB

“examines in great detail many of the tales associated with Jackson”

Baseball America