Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
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Another peek at baseball's good old days--or, in this case, bad old days--by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball... This description may be from another edition of this product.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0878338209
ISBN13:9780878338207
Release Date:April 1993
Publisher:Taylor Trade Publishing
Length:225 Pages
Weight:0.95 lbs.
Dimensions:0.7" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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TOP BASEBALL BOOK
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Belongs in Essential Baseball Library
JACKSON: symbol of game's more innocent era/THE STATE,
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"He was the greatest ball player ever from South Carolina. His lifetime batting average was .356, topped only by Ty Cobb and Rogers Honrsby.But Shoeless Joe had to leave the game in disgrace, one of the members of the "Black Sox" accused of throwing the 1919 World Series. Author Frommer argues that Jackson got a raw deal and deserves reinstatement and enshrinement in the Hall of Fame. Frommer's book is something of a biography and partly the story of baseball in the first two decades of this century. He sees Jackson as symbolizing the game's more innocent era, and he calls Jackson a 'folk hero, the representative of a collective nostalgic yearning for an agrarian past.'"
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Published by Thriftbooks.com User , 26 years ago
A definitive book about Joe Jackson
great baseball reading
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one of the best books on the 1919 blacksox scandal that I have ever rea
New York Times
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Goes beyond the 1963 classic Eight Men Out
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