Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson. (Book Reviews).(Book Review)

Nine | September 22, 2002| | Copyright

David L. Fleitz. Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson. Jefferson NC: McFarland & Company, 2001. 314 pp. Paper, $29.95.

Professional baseball has endured scandals of varying magnitude during its 125-plus-year history. Regardless of number or magnitude, the most widely known, and one that just won't die, is the eighty-two-year-old Black Sox scandal, which expelled eight players from the 1919 Chicago White Sox. Of the "eight men out," the story of Shoeless Joe Jackson is the most frequently told. Author David F1eitz's Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson ...

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