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Shoeless: The Life and Times of Joe Jackson
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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.357092
EAN: 9780786409785
ISBN: 0786409789
Label: McFarland & Company
Manufacturer: McFarland & Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 314
Publication Date: 2001-03
Publisher: McFarland & Company
Studio: McFarland & Company
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Editorial Review:
"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.
Customer Reviews
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Rating:  - Say it's so Joe!!
David Fleitz has captured in a snapshot the essence of the life of Joe Jackson. He was born in rural South Carolina in the late 19th Century and died in 1951 in his home state.
Shoeless Joe Jackson, has since become the precursor to the modern baseball slugger. His batting stance was copied by the ultimate baseball slugger, that being Babe Ruth. Mr. Jackson's batting skills in Cleveland and Chicago are legendary. He really was the first hitter to take a full cut at the ball. His batting ... Read More
Rating:  - Impressed apart from conclusion
Fleitz does a fine job of describing the atmosphere of the early days of baseball and is usually objective in his treatment of Jackson as a player and as a person. I recommend the book for anyone who is a Jackson affectionado and/or enjoys human drama in a sports context. However, I was very disappointed in the final pages where Fleitz offers his opinion that Jackson wouldn't have cared about the Hall of Fame anyway because he was basically a Southern, good old boy from a poor background who cared only ... Read More
Rating: - A balanced, thoughtful book
There has been a lot said and written about Joe Jackson by a variety of people - baseball people, baseball historians, scholars of the 1919 World Series, residents of the South (particularly South Carolina), and others. There's also been a variety of books produced about Jackson, most with his point of view or the "point of view he would have had," whatever that might have been at any point in time. It was with some skepticism that I picked up Fleitz's book and started to read, half expecting ... Read More
Rating: - The definitive Joe Jackson book
Great book. Separates the myth and the legend of Shoeless Joe Jackson from the "average Joe" and looks at his banishment from baseball in an honest, objective light. Author does an outstanding job of dissecting Jackson's behavior and possible motives throughout the scandal of the 1919 Black Sox.
But more importantly, more personal information about Joe is available on Joe throughout the pages of this text than any I have ever seen. This is a fantastic accomplishment as there is a lot of sappy, sentimental ... Read More
Rating: - The Shoeless Joe You Didn't Know
Baseball biographies come in all types, from boring descriptions of the player's performance in games, to tantalizing disconnected details of the player's life outside the lines, to full-fledged development of the player's life history and personality. This new book by David Fleitz falls more toward the latter. I recommend it to all baseball fans, especially ones (like me) who are fascinated by the lesser-known stars of the pre-Ruthian world.
Much of the book is devoted to Jackson's role in the Black Sox scandal, ... Read More
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