It is the 1919 World Series, and you are in left field of Crosley Field in Cincinnati. The crowd is just over thirty thousand people and everyone is cheering. You say to yourself, "This is crazy," but you get an adrenaline rush from it. "Get your hot dogs here," you hear from the vendor man in the crowd as you take your practice fly balls. You race to catch the ball before it hits the ground and you make it just in time. The crowd cheers, "Shoeless!" The announcer says, "Wow, that glove is the place where triples go to die." As you run into the dugout, the cool mist of the grass seeps through your cleats and the sand clumps up on the spikes as you run through the infield. Once you reach the dugout your coach Kid Gleason yells, "Shoeless, get up to bat." You grab your bat, "Black Betsy" as you call her. You step into the batters box eyeing down Cincinnati's pitcher Dutch Ruether and you know that you own him. "Up to bat Shoeless Joe Jackson," the announcer enthusiastically whoops. "Get your popcorn here," you hear out in the stands. He cocks his arm back, you can read the logo on the ball and you put everything you have into that ball to crush it out in the field. You dash to first watching the ball, seeing that the fielder misplays it and you take off sprinting, not stopping till you get to third. You step on second with all cylinders pumping and showing no signs of stopping. The outfielder throws the ball, you slide, "He's safe," says the umpire. That was an unbelievable triple. You gave everything you had. You know it will not be enough since seven of your teammates are throwing the game for money.
That is how Joseph Jefferson Jackson felt during the 1919 World Series. He could see all the hard work that he had done since he was born in Pickens County, SC in 1887 was being corrupted by the power of money influencing his other teammates (Eight Men Out). He had no education and came from a poverty-stricken farming family, yet he became a professional baseball player that made it twice to the World Series.
The crowd cheers, "Shoeless!" ... "Up to bat Shoeless Joe Jackson," the announcer enthusiastically whoops. ... While playing for the Spinners he acquired the name "Shoeless Joe." ... Even though it only happened once, he was still known for it for the rest of his career, "Shoeless Joe" ("Joe Jackson"). ... ("Joe Jackson"). ...
The most beautiful site to any fan of the game, a baseball field stood tall and proud where the tall corn once ruled the earth. Why did this man build a baseball field with a suffering farm, and a house that was close to being disowned? ... Shoeless Joe Jackson (Joseph Jefferson Jackson) appeared in Rays baseball field, out of no where, from the tall corn grass. ... Legend has it that shoeless Joe Jackson and seven other players where banned from the game after being found guilty of loosing the World Series on purpose for money. ... However, one night, when he and his daughter Karin where watc...
Shoeless Joe is a book about a man who builds a baseball field in his cornfield because he heard a voice telling him "if you build it, he will come". ... The first area of the field that is completed is left field, where Ray's favorite baseball player, Shoeless Joe Jackson plays. As Ray is building the baseball field, he hears another voice, "Ease his pain." ... Salinger and himself sitting at Fenway Park watching a baseball game. ... While they were watching a game Shoeless Joe came up to Moonlight Graham and asked him if he wanted to play, of course he accepted. ...
He builds a baseball field for Shoeless Joe Jackson. ... He got to watch Shoeless Joe Jackson play graceful baseball in the field that he built. ... That is where Shoeless Joe Jackson plays his position. ... The book gives a little more history on shoeless Joe Jackson then the movie. ... Finally that is when the miracle happens and everyone can see Shoeless Joe Jackson and the other players playing baseball. ...
Shoeless Joe Jackson played for the Chicago White Sox in 1919. ... Though no actual evidence was found against Jackson, he received a lifetime ban from baseball, based on being "guilty by association". ("Official Statement Regarding Joe Jackson" 1) Jackson was tried in two different courts, and both times he was found innocent. ... He did ask to be benched, and went so far as to tell his owner of the fix ("Facts Relating to Joe Jackson" 3), but to Major League Baseball he did not do enough. ... In a Major League Baseball press conference, the following was said, "Let no one think it did not ...
It's 1919, the baseball season has come to an end, and the lives of many people are about to change. ... He felt that despite the money he was making in baseball, it was not enough. ... The players that are involved are pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude Williams, first baseman Arnold Gandil, shortstop Charles Risberg, third baseman George Weaver, left fielder "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, center fielder Oscar Felsch and a substitute player, Fred McMullen. (Asinof) Everyone attended the meeting except "Shoeless" Joe Jackson and Arnold Rothstein. ... The same eight ball players were known as ...
His father's hero was a baseball player named Shoeless Joe Jackson. He said that because Jackson was kicked out of the Major Leagues because he was suspected of throwing a game. ... He helps Shoeless Joe Jackson and all the other players gain a means to play ball again. He helps a man named Doc Grahm play baseball also but the doc realizes that many things are more important than baseball and that living a life of saving lives is much more significant than if he lived a life of playing baseball. ... For Ray his dream was baseball, the field, and the players. ...
The eight men included the great "Shoeless" Joe Jackson; pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams; infielders Buck Weaver, Arnold "Chick" Gandil, Fred McMullin, and Charles "Swede" Risberg; and outfielder Oscar "Happy" Felsch. ... In 1915, he purchased three star players: outfielder Joe Jackson, second baseman Eddie Collins, and center fielder Happy Felsch. ... According to Jackson, when Gandil offered him $10,000 for his help in throwing the Series, Jackson turned him down. When Gandil upped the amount to $20,000, Jackson again refused. ... Many believed Gandil simply lied and sa...
For example, I myself am a baseball player. ... As Richard Harris Jackson states, "the enjoyment we experience emotionally from witnessing the success or victory of a competing individual or team increases with the degree of positive sentiments . . . we feel toward that party" (Jackson 135). ... A few decades later, on April 15, 1947, the first black baseball player set foot on a major league baseball field; his name was Jackie Robinson. ... From the days that young Native Americans looked up to (and pinned their hopes on) decathlete Jim Thorpe, Italian immigrants to Joe DiMaggio, ...