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Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 20th century.
W. P. Kinsella's novel Shoeless Joe is the story of an Iowa farmer who builds a baseball field in his cornfield after hearing a mysterious voice. Later, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other members of the Black Sox come to play on his field. The novel was adapted into the 1989 hit film Field of Dreams. Jackson plays a central role in inspiring ...
In an overall positive review, critic Janet Maslin spoke well of the actors, writing, "Notable in the large and excellent cast of Eight Men Out are D. B. Sweeney, who gives Shoeless Joe Jackson the slow, voluptuous Southern naivete of the young Elvis; Michael Lerner, who plays the formidable gangster Arnold Rothstein with the quietest aplomb ...
One of the game's biggest stars, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, sued the Chicago White Sox, saying the team owed him $16,000 in back pay. Jackson had signed a three-year contract after the 1919 World ...
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"Shoeless" Joe Jackson. (The precise extent of Jackson's involvement is controversial.) Jackson died in 1951. Buck Weaver, like Jackson, was controversially banned. Weaver refused to accept any money and played to the best of his ability in the Series, but was banned nevertheless because he knew of the conspiracy but did not report it to MLB ...
Jackson and the others nonetheless received lifetime bans from baseball on grounds they had violated league rules. Periodic efforts to posthumously add Shoeless Joe to the hall of fame all failed.
The powerful White Sox, with their superstar batter "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and star pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Claude "Lefty" Williams, were believed likely to defeat the less-well-regarded Reds. To the surprise of many, the Reds defeated the White Sox, five games to three (from 1919 to 1921, the World Series was a best-of-nine affair).