query: who played shoeless joe in field of dreams

pos: Field of Dreams with moments of pure magic." Field of Dreams Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama sports film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, who also wrote the screenplay, adapting W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe". It stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster in his final film role. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Ray

pos: Shoeless Joe Jackson died before the interview could take place. He had no children, but he and his wife raised two of his nephews. Shoeless Joe has been depicted in a few films in the late 20th century. "Eight Men Out", a film directed by John Sayles, based on the Eliot Asinof book of the same name, details the Black Sox scandal in general and has D. B. Sweeney portraying Jackson. The Phil Alden Robinson film "Field of Dreams", based on "Shoeless Joe" by W. P. Kinsella, stars Ray Liotta as Jackson. Kevin Costner plays an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice

pos: Field of Dreams Field of Dreams Field of Dreams is a 1989 American fantasy-drama sports film directed by Phil Alden Robinson, who also wrote the screenplay, adapting W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe". It stars Kevin Costner, Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones, Ray Liotta and Burt Lancaster in his final film role. It was nominated for three Academy Awards, including for Best Original Score, Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Picture. In 2017, the film was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". Ray Kinsella is a novice Iowa

pos: Mark Grace became eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 2009; 75% of the vote was necessary for induction, and 5% was necessary to stay on future ballots. Grace received 4.1% of the vote and was dropped from further ballots. Grace's ex-wife, Michelle, was also married to Ray Liotta, who played baseball player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams". As of 2006, he is divorced from his second wife, Tanya, who starred on the VH1 show "Baseball Wives." Grace lived in Antioch, Tennessee, during a period of his childhood years. He currently resides in Paradise Valley, Arizona, with his

pos: Field of Dreams because he thought it would be fun to see Ray trying to kidnap such a big man. Robinson had originally envisioned Shoeless Joe Jackson as being played by an actor in his 40s, someone who would be older than Costner and who could thereby act as a father surrogate. Ray Liotta did not fit that criterion, but Robinson thought he would be a better fit for the part because he had the "sense of danger" and ambiguity which Robinson wanted in the character. Burt Lancaster had originally turned down the part of Moonlight Graham, but changed his mind after a

pos: Ray Liotta Ray Liotta Raymond Allen Liotta (born December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor. Liotta is best known for his portrayal of Henry Hill in the crime drama "Goodfellas" (1990); other notable roles include Ray Sinclair in Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild" (1986), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams" (1989), Officer Pete Davis in "Unlawful Entry" (1992), Officer Gary Figgis in "Cop Land" (1997), Paul Krendler in "Hannibal" (2001), Fred Jung in "Blow" (2001), Tommy Vercetti in the video game "" (2002), Chief Gus Monroe in "John Q"

pos: Ray Liotta It might be my new hobby." On February 19, 2007, Liotta was arrested under suspicion of driving under the influence after crashing his Cadillac Escalade into two parked vehicles in Pacific Palisades. He pleaded no contest. Ray Liotta Raymond Allen Liotta (born December 18, 1954) is an American actor, film producer, and voice actor. Liotta is best known for his portrayal of Henry Hill in the crime drama "Goodfellas" (1990); other notable roles include Ray Sinclair in Jonathan Demme's "Something Wild" (1986), for which he received a Golden Globe nomination, Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Field of Dreams" (1989), Officer Pete

neg: Shoeless Joe (novel) dreams, magic, life, and what is quintessentially American." "Shoeless Joe" was the winner of the 1982 Books in Canada First Novel Award and a Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship. In 2011, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame awarded Kinsella the Jack Graney Award for a significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada through a life's work or a singular outstanding achievement. "Shoeless Joe" was later adapted into the 1989 film "Field of Dreams" by Phil Alden Robinson. The original working title of the film was "Shoeless Joe", like the book. The original title of the book was "Dream Field",

neg: Field of Dreams made to rename it "Field of Dreams." Robinson did not like the idea, saying he loved "Shoeless Joe," and that the new title was better suited for one about dreams deferred. Later, Kinsella told Robinson that his originally chosen title for the book had been "The Dream Field" and that the title "Shoeless Joe" had been imposed by the publisher. Robinson and the producers did not originally consider Kevin Costner for the part of Ray because they did not think that he would want to follow "Bull Durham" with another baseball film. He, however, did end up reading the script

neg: Shoeless Joe (novel) being sued by Salinger. The producers believed that it was not significant to jettison Salinger, as they figured only 15% of the potential audience would know who the author was. Kinsella told Maclean's Magazine in a 2010 interview on the death of Salinger that many of the book's readers believe that Salinger is a wholly fictional character. Kinsella denied that Salinger, as a writer, had any real influence on his own writing. Shoeless Joe (novel) Shoeless Joe is a magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella which became better known due to its film adaptation, "Field of Dreams".

neg: Shoeless Joe (novel) Shoeless Joe (novel) Shoeless Joe is a magic realist novel by Canadian author W. P. Kinsella which became better known due to its film adaptation, "Field of Dreams". The book was written when Kinsella attended the Iowa Writers' Workshop, and decided to incorporate the stories he told about the Black Sox Scandal, imagining if Shoeless Joe Jackson came back to the same city Kinsella was living in, Iowa City. Ray Kinsella lives and farms in Iowa where he grows corn with his wife Annie and their five-year-old daughter Karin. Kinsella is obsessed with the beauty and history of American baseball,

neg: Field of Dreams to sell the farm. After the game, Shoeless Joe invites Mann to enter the corn; he accepts and disappears into it. Ray is angry at not being invited, but Shoeless Joe rebukes him: if he really wants a reward for having sacrificed so much, then he had better stay on the field. Shoeless Joe then glances towards a player at home plate, saying "If you build it, "he" will come." The player then removes his mask, and Ray recognizes him to be his father, John, as a young man. Shocked, Ray realizes that "ease his pain" referred to his dad,

neg: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy The Iowa Baseball Confederacy This article is about the 1986 novel "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy," written by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella. It is less well known than his novel "Shoeless Joe", which came to prominence when it was made into the film "Field of Dreams." Like Shoeless Joe, baseball is at the heart of the novel, which uses "magic realism" to blend events and individuals past and present with the author's love of the game. However, it covers more themes than Shoeless Joe and it explores a greater number of plot lines. Gideon Clarke has two obsessions, baseball and playing

neg: The Iowa Baseball Confederacy obsession and the influence of dreams in shaping our destiny. Added to which, we have glimpses of small town life in the USA in the early 20th Century, shadows from the culture of the Native Americans, the role of family and the tragedy of love and loss, The Iowa Baseball Confederacy This article is about the 1986 novel "The Iowa Baseball Confederacy," written by Canadian author W.P. Kinsella. It is less well known than his novel "Shoeless Joe", which came to prominence when it was made into the film "Field of Dreams." Like Shoeless Joe, baseball is at the heart

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Shoeless Joe Jackson Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American star outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB) in the early 1900s. He is remembered for his performance on the field and for his alleged association with the Black Sox Scandal, in which members of the Chicago White Sox participated in a conspiracy to fix the World Series. As a result of Jackson's association with the scandal, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Major League Baseball's first commissioner, banned Jackson from playing after the season despite exceptional play in the 1919 World Series, leading

neg: Field of Dreams and believes that Shoeless Joe was the voice all along; however, Joe implies that "ease his pain" was about Ray himself. Joe then disappears into the corn. Ray introduces John (not calling him "Dad" until later) to Annie and Karin. As he heads towards the corn, Ray asks him if he wants to play a game of catch. They begin to play and Annie happily watches. Meanwhile, hundreds of cars can be seen approaching the baseball field, fulfilling Karin and Mann's prophecy that people will come to watch baseball. The identity of the actor who provided “The Voice”, who speaks

neg: Moonlight Graham 1908) after the one major league game that he played in 1905. Moonlight Graham Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (November 12, 1876 – August 25, 1965) was an American professional baseball player and medical doctor who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by "Shoeless Joe", a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film "Field of Dreams", starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham. Graham was born in Fayetteville, North

neg: 1905 New York Giants season "Turkey" Mike Donlin, scored the most runs in the majors. On June 29, Archie "Moonlight" Graham, made famous through the novel "Shoeless Joe" and subsequent movie "Field of Dreams", made his lone major league appearance. "Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in" "Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in" "Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins;

neg: Field of Dreams Sox Scandal. Months pass and nothing happens; his family faces financial ruin until, one night, Karin spots a uniformed man on the field. Ray recognizes him as Shoeless Joe Jackson, a deceased baseball player idolized by John. Thrilled to be able to play baseball again, Joe asks to bring others to the field to play. He later returns with the seven other players banned as a result of the 1919 scandal. Ray's brother-in-law, Mark, can't see the players and warns him that he will go bankrupt unless he replants his corn. While in the field, Ray hears the voice again,

neg: Moonlight Graham to each. A biography of Graham, "Chasing Moonlight: The True Story of Field of Dreams' Doc Graham", was written by sportswriter Brett Friedlander and college professor Robert W. Reising in April 2009. In 1975, author W. P. Kinsella happened to notice Graham's entry in "The Baseball Encyclopedia". He made note of his unusual career, and then incorporated Graham as a character in his 1982 novel "Shoeless Joe", on which the movie "Field of Dreams" was based. Much of the description of Graham's life in the novel came from the people of Chisholm as Kinsella visited seeking information on him. In

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum equipment such as baseballs, gloves, and cleats. Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum The "Shoeless" Joe Jackson Museum and Library was first opened to the public on June 21, 2008. Located across from Fluor Field in Greenville, South Carolina, the five room brick house in which Shoeless Joe Jackson lived and died in contains a few of his personal belongings and over 2,000 books related to baseball. In 2015, the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum formally petitioned Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred for Jackson's reinstatement to baseball, on grounds that Jackson had "more than served his sentence" in the 95 years since his

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum The "Shoeless" Joe Jackson Museum and Library was first opened to the public on June 21, 2008. Located across from Fluor Field in Greenville, South Carolina, the five room brick house in which Shoeless Joe Jackson lived and died in contains a few of his personal belongings and over 2,000 books related to baseball. In 2015, the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum formally petitioned Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred for Jackson's reinstatement to baseball, on grounds that Jackson had "more than served his sentence" in the 95 years since his banishment by Kenesaw Landis. Manfred denied the

neg: Charlotte Hornets (baseball) his novel "Shoeless Joe" and the subsequent 1988 film "Field of Dreams". Graham's character was played by Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley as older and younger Graham. In 2001 as part of the 200th anniversary celebration of Minor League Baseball, Bill Weiss and Marshall Write, two veteran chroniclers of minor league teams, researched and rated the best Minor League teams of the Twentieth Century. The 1951 Charlotte Hornets ranked 36th and the 1931 Hornets 56th. The next era of Charlotte baseball began in 1976, however the three years prior, (1973-75) the stadium sat empty and deteriorating. In an effort to

neg: A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All in the 1982 book "Shoeless Joe" by W. P. Kinsella (who coincidentally shares the character's last name) which was adapted into the film "Field of Dreams" (1989). W.P. Kinsella, who had never met Salinger, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his being a recluse) based on the author of "The Catcher in the Rye", a book that had great meaning to him when he was a young man. To get a feel for Salinger, he re-read his body of work. "I made sure to make him a nice character so that he couldn’t sue me." Salinger had also used

neg: Oxbow, Saskatchewan W. P. Kinsella (who was catapulted to fame when his book "Shoeless Joe" (1980) was made into the movie "Field of Dreams" by Kevin Costner in 1989). Kinsella was sent to Oxbow by "Saturday Night" magazine after Oxbow had the dubious distinction of having Canada's highest per-capita murder rate. Years later, Kinsella followed up with a second article, again in "Saturday Night". Oxbow, Saskatchewan Oxbow is a town in the southeast of the province of Saskatchewan, Canada. It is located on the Canadian Pacific Railway and on Provincial Highway 18. It is approximately 58 kilometers west of Saskatchewan's border with

neg: Moonlight Graham Moonlight Graham Archibald Wright "Moonlight" Graham (November 12, 1876 – August 25, 1965) was an American professional baseball player and medical doctor who appeared as a right fielder in a single major league game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. His story was popularized by "Shoeless Joe", a novel by W. P. Kinsella, and the subsequent 1989 film "Field of Dreams", starring Kevin Costner, and featuring Burt Lancaster and Frank Whaley, respectively, as older and younger incarnations of Graham. Graham was born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, the second of ten children born to Alexander (September 12, 1844

neg: W. P. Kinsella Kinsella became more involved with the game after being disillusioned by the 1994 Major League Baseball strike. He spent his final years in Yale, British Columbia, with his fourth wife, Barbara, occasionally writing articles for various newspapers. Kinsella, who had suffered from diabetes for decades, elected to die with a physician's assistance on September 16, 2016. W. P. Kinsella William Patrick "W. P." Kinsella (May 25, 1935September 16, 2016) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel "Shoeless Joe" (1982), which was adapted into the movie "Field of Dreams" in 1989. His work often concerned baseball,

neg: Gainesway Farm with a chestnut Mr. Greeley colt that sold for $2.2 million to Team Valor and will be syndicated. The colt has been named Kinsella after well-known baseball writer W. P. Kinsella, whose book, "Shoeless Joe", was adapted into the movie "Field of Dreams". Gainesway Farm Gainesway Farm is an American Thoroughbred horse breeding business in Lexington, Kentucky. It was originally called Greentree Farms. The 1,500 acre (6 km²) property has been home to stallions such as Youth and Exceller and numerous others who are buried on the property. Among the current stallion roster is Tapit, sire of 4 Breeders' Cup

neg: Field of Dreams had moved on from his baseball career. He also says that the greater disappointment would have been not having a medical career. He declines Ray's invitation to fulfill his dream; however, during the drive back home, Ray picks up a young hitchhiker who introduces himself as Archie Graham. While Archie sleeps, Ray reveals to Mann that John had wanted him to live out his dream of being a baseball star. He stopped playing catch with him after reading one of Mann's books at 14. At 17, he had denounced Shoeless Joe as a criminal to John and that was the

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson instructing him to build a baseball field on his farm so Shoeless Joe can play baseball again. (Liotta portrays Jackson as batting right-handed and throwing left-handed, although Jackson actually batted left and threw right.) Jackson's nickname was worked into the musical play "Damn Yankees". The lead character, baseball phenomenon Joe Hardy, alleged to be from a small town in Missouri, is dubbed by the media as "Shoeless Joe from Hannibal, MO." The play also contains a plot element alleging that Joe had thrown baseball games in his earlier days. Jackson was also an inspiration, in part, for the character Roy

neg: Bombo Rivera "The Ballad of Bombo Rivera." There is also a brief mention of Bombo Rivera in W. P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe", the basis for the film "Field of Dreams". Rivera also received hundreds of write-in votes in the 1979 University of Minnesota election for student council president, ostensibly coming in second place. Bombo Rivera Jesus "Bombo" Rivera Torres (born August 2, 1952) is a former Major League Baseball outfielder. At the age of seven, his youth baseball manager started calling him "Bombo", meaning "fly ball," and the nickname stuck. Aside from baseball, Rivera also excelled in track and field. He ran

neg: Riverside Park, Dawson Springs a short walking distance from the New Century Hotel. Wagner, who trained on this field for 3 years, organized a team of local young boys known as "Honus Wagners' Young Recruits." Several other future members of the Hall of Fame including; Babe Ruth, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Casey Stengel, and Ty Cobb also played baseball at Riverside Park. The team remained there through the 1917 season. The following season, the Pirates when they moved into Barrs Field, located in Jacksonville, Florida. Records also show that some major league teams played expedition games at Riverside Park until the early 1920s; the Boston

neg: W. P. Kinsella into a popular movie. W. P. Kinsella's novel "Shoeless Joe" was made into the movie "Field of Dreams", starring Kevin Costner. The movie grossed nearly $65 million in the United States, and helped establish Costner as a star. Kinsella's eight books of short stories about life on reserves were the basis for the 1994 movie "Dance Me Outside" and CBC television series "The Rez", both of which Kinsella considers to be of very poor quality. The collection "Fencepost Chronicles" won the Stephen Leacock Award for Humour in 1987. The short story "The Last Pennant Before Armageddon" was adapted for the

neg: Field of Dreams to Ray throughout the film, has remained unconfirmed since the film’s release. It’s been believed by some to belong to film stars Costner or Liotta, while the book’s author W.P. Kinsella stated he was told it was Ed Harris (husband of Madigan). Matt Damon and Ben Affleck were extras in the Fenway Park scene. Phil Alden Robinson read "Shoeless Joe" in 1981 and liked it so much that he brought it to producers Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon. Lawrence Gordon worked for 20th Century Fox, part of the time as its president, and repeatedly mentioned that the book should be

neg: Baseball and John Fogerty's "Centerfield". The baseball-inspired comedic sketch "Who's on First", popularized by Abbott and Costello in 1938, quickly became famous. Six decades later, "Time" named it the best comedy routine of the 20th century. Literary works connected to the game include the short fiction of Ring Lardner and novels such as Bernard Malamud's "The Natural" (the source for the movie), Robert Coover's "The Universal Baseball Association, Inc., J. Henry Waugh, Prop.", and W. P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe" (the source for "Field of Dreams"). Baseball's literary canon also includes the beat reportage of Damon Runyon; the columns of Grantland Rice,

neg: Ray Liotta in the fantasy/drama film "Field of Dreams"—Liotta portrayed Shoeless Joe Jackson, the ghost of the famed baseball player. In 1990, Liotta portrayed real-life mobster Henry Hill in Martin Scorsese's film "Goodfellas". In 1992, he costarred as a psychopathic cop alongside Kurt Russell and Madeleine Stowe in the thriller "Unlawful Entry". He appeared in a leading role in the science-fiction/action film "No Escape". In 1996, he starred with Linda Fiorentino and Peter Coyote in the sci-fi/thriller "Unforgettable". Liotta earned critical praise for his turn in James Mangold's 1997 film "Cop Land", starring alongside Sylvester Stallone, Robert De Niro, and Harvey Keitel.

neg: W. P. Kinsella W. P. Kinsella William Patrick "W. P." Kinsella (May 25, 1935September 16, 2016) was a Canadian novelist and short story writer, known for his novel "Shoeless Joe" (1982), which was adapted into the movie "Field of Dreams" in 1989. His work often concerned baseball, First Nations people, and other Canadian issues. William Patrick Kinsella was born in Edmonton, Alberta, the son of Irish Canadian parents, Olive Mary (née Elliott/Elliot), a printer, and John Matthew Kinsella, a contractor. He was raised until he was 10 years old at a homestead near Darwell, Alberta, 60 km west of the city, home-schooled by

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Memorial Park. A life-size statue of Jackson, created by South Carolina sculptor Doug Young, also stands in Greenville's West End. In 2006, Jackson's original home was moved to a location adjacent to Fluor Field in downtown Greenville. The home was restored and opened in 2008 as the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum. The address is 356 Field Street, in honor of his lifetime batting average. The restoration and move was chronicled on The Learning Channel's reality show "The Real Deal" episode "A Home Run for Trademark" which aired March 31, 2007. Richard C. Davis, the owner of Trademark Properties hired Josh

neg: Shoeless Joe (novel) specifically the plight of his hero, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and the Black Sox Scandal of the 1919 World Series. When he hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in the midst of his corn crop in order to give his hero a chance at redemption, he blindly follows instructions. The field becomes a conduit to the spirits of baseball legends. Soon, Kinsella is off on a cross-country trip to ease the pain of another hero, the reclusive writer J.D. Salinger, as part of a journey the "Philadelphia Inquirer" called "not so much about baseball as it's about

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson He remained in Cleveland through the first part of ; he played the remainder of the season through with the Chicago White Sox. Jackson, who played left field for most of his career, currently has the third-highest career batting average in major league history. In , Jackson hit for a .408 average. It is still the sixth-highest single-season total since , which marked the beginning of the modern era for the sport. His average that year also set the record for batting average in a single season by a rookie. Babe Ruth said that he modeled his hitting technique after

neg: Bibb Falk Bibb Falk Bibb August Falk (January 27, 1899 – June 8, 1989) was an American left fielder in Major League Baseball who played for the Chicago White Sox (1920–28) and Cleveland Indians (1929–31). Born in Austin, Texas, Falk played football and baseball at the University of Texas before signing with the White Sox in 1920. He was a spare outfielder with the Sox until news of the 1919 Black Sox scandal broke and eight players were suspended; Falk replaced Shoeless Joe Jackson in left field. Falk was a consistent hitter, ending his career after twelve seasons with a .314 career

neg: Chicago White Sox a major league baseball club in . The club was originally called the Chicago White Stockings, but this was soon shortened to Chicago White Sox. The team originally played home games at South Side Park before moving to Comiskey Park in , where they played until Guaranteed Rate Field (originally known as Comiskey Park and then known as U.S. Cellular Field) opened in 1991. The White Sox won the 1906 World Series with a defense-oriented team dubbed "the Hitless Wonders", and the 1917 World Series led by Eddie Cicotte, Eddie Collins, and Shoeless Joe Jackson. The 1919 World Series was

neg: Shoeless Joe (novel) had also used the surname in "The Catcher in the Rye" (Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella). Known for his litigiousness, Salinger contacted Kinsella's publisher via his attorneys to express outrage over having been portrayed in "Shoeless Joe" and intimated he would sue should the character "J.D. Salinger" appear in any other medium, should "Shoeless Joe" be adapted. In the novel "Shoeless Joe", Ray Kinsella seeks out J. D. Salinger, although in the film this character was renamed Terence Mann (and was changed to a black man by the casting of James Earl Jones) as the movie producers were worried over

neg: W. P. Kinsella "It's the oppressed and the oppressor that I write about. The way that oppressed people survive is by making fun of the people who oppress them. That is essentially what my Indian stories are all about." In the field of baseball, Kinsella wrote nearly 40 short stories and three novels. "Shoeless Joe" (1982), his first novel, blends fantasy and magical realism to tell the story of a poor Iowa farmer who, yielding to voices in his head, builds a baseball field in his corn field that attracts the spirits of the 1919 Chicago White Sox. The "Iowa Baseball Confederacy" (1986),

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Hobbs in "The Natural". Hobbs has a special name for his bat (as Jackson did), and is offered a bribe to throw a game. In the book (but not the film), a youngster pleads with Hobbs, "Say it ain't true, Roy!" Shoeless Joe is a character in the song "Kenesaw Mountain Landis", by Jonathan Coulton, although the song takes many liberties with the story for comedic effect. Though Jackson was banned from Major League Baseball, statues and parks have been constructed in his honor. One of the landmarks built for him was a memorial park in Greenville, Shoeless Joe Jackson

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Hamilton as the construction foreman. In a bit of irony, the show also chronicled Hamiliton's attempt to rejoin baseball after a one-year drug abuse suspension and 3-year absence. Jackson was inducted into the Shrine of the Eternals by the Baseball Reliquary. Jackson's first relative to play professional baseball since his banishment was catcher Joseph Ray Jackson. The great-great-grand nephew of Shoeless Joe batted .386 for The Citadel in 2013 and was then drafted by the Texas Rangers. Later that year, he made his professional debut with the Northwest League's Spokane Indians. Shoeless Joe Jackson Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887

neg: A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All the surname shared by writer and protagonist in "The Catcher in the Rye" (Holden Caulfield's roommate Richard Kinsella). Known for his litigiousness, Salinger contacted Kinsella's publisher via his attorneys to express outrage over having been portrayed in "Shoeless Joe" and intimated he would sue should the character "J.D. Salinger" appear in any other medium, should "Shoeless Joe" be adapted. In the novel "Shoeless Joe", Ray Kinsella seeks out J. D. Salinger, although in the film this character was renamed Terence Mann as the movie producers were worried over being sued by Salinger. The producers believed that it was not significant

neg: Tom Stouch Tom Stouch Thomas Carl "Tom" Stouch (December 2, 1869 – October 7, 1956) was a Major League Baseball second baseman who played four games with the Louisville Colonels of the National League in 1898. He is best known for "discovering" Shoeless Joe Jackson who played against him while Jackson was in a mill team in Greer, South Carolina in 1907. Stouch was born in Perrysville, Ohio in 1869. His professional career started in the Texas League in 1892. He also played for a minor league team in Charleston in 1892. He moved on to Lancaster of the Pennsylvania State League

neg: Shoeless Joe (novel) but the publisher renamed it "Shoeless Joe." W.P. Kinsella, who had never met Salinger, created a wholly imagined character (aside from his being a recluse) based on the author of "The Catcher in the Rye", a book that had great meaning to him when he was a young man. To get a feel for Salinger, he re-read his body of work. "I made sure to make him a nice character so that he couldn't sue me." In addition to having a character named "Ray Kinsella" in the short story "A Young Girl in 1941 with No Waist at All", Salinger

neg: Tom Stouch to 1912, with the exception of an eight-game stint with Augusta of the Sally League in 1911. He retired to Lancaster, where he died at the age of 86. Tom Stouch Thomas Carl "Tom" Stouch (December 2, 1869 – October 7, 1956) was a Major League Baseball second baseman who played four games with the Louisville Colonels of the National League in 1898. He is best known for "discovering" Shoeless Joe Jackson who played against him while Jackson was in a mill team in Greer, South Carolina in 1907. Stouch was born in Perrysville, Ohio in 1869. His professional career

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson bat. As play continued, a heckling fan noticed Jackson running to third base in his socks, and shouted "You shoeless son of a gun, you!" and the resulting nickname "Shoeless Joe" stuck with him throughout the remainder of his life. 1908 was an eventful year for Jackson. He began his professional baseball career with the Greenville Spinners of the Carolina Association, married 15-year-old Katie Wynn, and eventually signed with Connie Mack to play Major League Baseball for the Philadelphia Athletics. For the first two years of his career, Jackson had some trouble adjusting to life with the Athletics; reports conflict

neg: Curse of the Black Sox but lacked sufficient resources to compete with wealthier teams. Ownership then passed to the Allyn brothers, who almost moved the team to Milwaukee while mediocre on-field performance continued. The team was then reacquired by Veeck, who sold it to current majority owner Jerry Reinsdorf, who also owns the NBA's Chicago Bulls on the West Side of town. Curse of the Black Sox The Curse of the Black Sox/Curse of Shoeless Joe (1919–2005) was a superstition or "scapegoat" cited as one reason for the failure of the Chicago White Sox to win the World Series from until . As with other

neg: Shoeless Joe's large planned. In July 2016, the first location of the chain was opened outside Ontario, in Stonebridge, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Shoeless Joe's Shoeless Joe's is a sports-themed restaurant chain located in Ontario, Canada. The chain founded in Toronto in 1985. They specialize in chicken wings, but also serve a variety of foods on their menu including Mucho Nachos, quesadillas, sandwiches, soups, salads, baby back ribs, angus steaks, and sirloin burgers. The name is a reference to a former Major League Baseball player named Shoeless Joe Jackson. The original location was located on Eglinton Street in Toronto, Ontario as a local community

neg: Shoeless Joe's Shoeless Joe's Shoeless Joe's is a sports-themed restaurant chain located in Ontario, Canada. The chain founded in Toronto in 1985. They specialize in chicken wings, but also serve a variety of foods on their menu including Mucho Nachos, quesadillas, sandwiches, soups, salads, baby back ribs, angus steaks, and sirloin burgers. The name is a reference to a former Major League Baseball player named Shoeless Joe Jackson. The original location was located on Eglinton Street in Toronto, Ontario as a local community sports bar. Investor Fred Lopreiato purchased it within several years, and the first franchised location opened in 1991. From

neg: Fluor Field at the West End is to the same specifications as Fenway Park, including "Pesky’s Pole" in right field. Other than the tribute to Fenway, Fluor Field also pays tribute to the Greenville area as the ballpark's nostalgic look utilizes reclaimed bricks from local mills. As is the tradition in Fenway Park, Neil Diamond's "Sweet Caroline" is sung in the middle of the eighth inning. Fluor Field is adjacent to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum. In 2007, the Greenville Drive privately funded the enhancement of Fluor Field at a cost of approximately $1.5 million. One of these enhancements include a display regarding Greenville's baseball heritage

neg: Black Sox Scandal the others for knowing about the fix but not reporting it. Although he hardly played in the series, utility infielder Fred McMullin got word of the fix and threatened to report the others unless he was in on the payoff. As a small coincidence, McMullin was a former teammate of William "Sleepy Bill" Burns, who had a minor role in the fix. Both had played for the Los Angeles Angels of the Pacific Coast League, and Burns had previously pitched for the White Sox in 1909 and 1910. Star outfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson was mentioned as a participant but did

neg: Cup of coffee baseball player who made his debut with a cup of coffee was Shoeless Joe Jackson, who played five games in 1908, five more in 1909, and twenty games in 1910 before finally making the bigs for good in 1911. For many players, a cup of coffee is all they ever get in the major leagues. Notable cups of coffee include: Players who play only a few games in the National Hockey League and spend the rest of their careers in the American Hockey League or other professional leagues are common in professional hockey. A special case unique to the NHL

neg: World Series 1919, but first baseman Chick Gandil had other plans. Gandil, in collaboration with gambler Joseph "Sport" Sullivan, approached his teammates and got six of them to agree to throw the Series: starting pitchers Eddie Cicotte and Lefty Williams, shortstop Swede Risberg, left fielder Shoeless Joe Jackson, center fielder Happy Felsch, and utility infielder Fred McMullin. Third baseman Buck Weaver knew of the fix but declined to participate, hitting .324 for the series from 11 hits and committing no errors in the field. The Sox, who were promised $100,000 for cooperating, proceeded to lose the Series in eight games, pitching poorly,

neg: Ray Schalk 1917 World Series, four games to two, for their last world championship until 2005. In 1918, he recorded his first putout at second base against the St. Louis Browns. On a hit and run play, the Browns' Ray Demmitt ran past second base as Shoeless Joe Jackson made a catch in deep left field off the bat of Joe Gedeon. Schalk, in the middle of the diamond, ran to second base to take the relay from White Sox shortstop Swede Risberg and tagged Demmitt out. The White Sox fell to sixth place in the 1918 season, however, as Schalk batted

neg: New Orleans Pelicans (baseball) was changed in 1936 to Pelican Stadium following the death of Heinemann and team owner Charles Somers. The Pelicans played their final game there in 1957. After this, they played for two years at City Park Stadium, now called Tad Gormley Stadium, in City Park. The franchise was sold to Little Rock at the end of the 1959 season. The Southern Association folded after the 1961 season. Notable Pelicans included Shoeless Joe Jackson, Jimmy Dygert, Henry "Cotton" Knaupp, Bill Lindsay, Zeke Bonura, Gene Freese, and Hall of Famers Dazzy Vance, Joe Sewell, Bob Lemon, and Earl Weaver. In Jackson's only

neg: 1919 Cincinnati Reds season Rariden, extending the Reds lead to 10-1. In the bottom of the eighth inning, the White Sox made a last attempt to comeback, as a double by Shoeless Joe Jackson scored Eddie Collins and Buck Weaver, cutting the Reds lead to 10-3. Chick Gandil tripled to right field, scoring Jackson, making it 10-4. Swede Risberg then hit it to Reds center fielder Edd Roush, who made an error, allowing Gandil to score, and cut the lead to 10-5 for the Reds. Cincinnati got out of the inning after a Ray Schalk groundout to stop the comeback. In the ninth, the

neg: Tiger Stadium (Detroit) same day as the Boston Red Sox's Fenway Park. While constructed on the same site as Bennett Park, the diamond at Navin Field was rotated 90°, with home plate located in what had been left field at Bennett Park. Cleveland Naps player "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, later banned from baseball for life following the Black Sox Scandal, scored the first run at Navin Field on the opening day. The intimate configurations of both stadiums, both conducive to high-scoring games featuring home runs, prompted baseball writers to refer to them as "bandboxes" or "cigar boxes" (a reference to the similarly intimate Baker

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson investigate the allegations. Jackson's 12 base hits set a Series record that was not broken until 1964, and he led both teams with a .375 batting average (although that was predominantly compiled in the three games the White Sox did not throw; he hit only .286 in the losses). He committed no errors, and threw out a runner at the plate. Assertions that the Reds hit an unusually high number of triples to Jackson's position in left field are not supported by contemporary newspaper accounts, which recorded no Cincinnati triples at all to left field (however, Baseball Register shows Cincinnati

neg: Anderson Joes was then traded to the South Georgia Peanuts where he served as a player-coach for the remainder of the season. Wilson was replaced at the position by veteran minor league manager Kash Beauchamp. The team finished their lone season at 5th place in the league standings, 12 games in front of the last place Charlotte County Redfish. Anderson Joes The Anderson Joes were a minor league baseball club that existed in 2007. The team was based in Anderson, South Carolina and was named after outfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson, who grew up in the local area. The team played as a

neg: W. P. Kinsella another book blending fantasy and magical realism, recounts an epic baseball game a minor league team played against the 1908 World's Champion Chicago Cubs. "Box Socials" (1991), an evocation of life in rural Alberta during the Great Depression and World War II, features a growing boy as its narrator and a purported local batting hero's hopes in facing a visiting major league pitcher 60 miles away in Edmonton. "Shoeless Joe" remains Kinsella's most famous work. The book was mildly controversial in that it used a living person, the reclusive author J.D. Salinger, as one of its main characters. Kinsella, who

neg: Anderson Joes Anderson Joes The Anderson Joes were a minor league baseball club that existed in 2007. The team was based in Anderson, South Carolina and was named after outfielder Shoeless Joe Jackson, who grew up in the local area. The team played as a member of the independent South Coast League. The Joes began the season with rookie Nate Jacks, an outfielder from Clinton, South Carolina and Desi Wilson, a former first baseman with the San Francisco Giants, serving as the team's manager. However, midway through the season, he left the position of manager and was activated as a player. He

neg: W. P. Kinsella surname shared by writer and protagonist in "The Catcher in the Rye" (Holden Caulfield's friend Richard Kinsella). Known for his litigiousness, Salinger contacted Kinsella's publisher via his attorneys to express outrage over having been portrayed in "Shoeless Joe". Kinsella denied that Salinger, as a writer, had any real influence on his own writing, despite rumors to the contrary (some rumors held that Kinsella had actually met Salinger in person). "Shoeless Joe" won Kinsella the prestigious Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship and the Books in Canada First Novel Award in 1982. The book garnered good reviews, sold very well, and was made

neg: Ed Klepfer last game on September 5, 1919. After baseball, Klepfer became an independent oil operator and then in 1946 went to work for C.W. Titus, an oilman in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Klepfer died on August 9, 1950 in a hospital in Tulsa. His body was laid to rest at Rose Hill Cemetery. On August 21, 1915, the White Sox traded Klepfer along with Larry Chappell, Braggo Roth and cash for Shoeless Joe Jackson. Ed Klepfer Edward Lloyd Klepfer was a spitball pitcher in Major League Baseball who played for the New York Yankees, Chicago White Sox and Cleveland Indians in a span

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Baseball Hall of Fame. In 1989, MLB Commissioner A. Bartlett Giamatti declined to reinstate Jackson because the case was "now best given to historical analysis and debate as opposed to a present-day review with an eye to reinstatement." In November 1999, the U.S. House of Representatives passed a resolution lauding Jackson's sporting achievements and encouraging MLB to rescind his ineligibility. The resolution was symbolic, since the U.S. government has no jurisdiction in the matter. Commissioner Bud Selig stated at the time that Jackson's case was under review, but no decision was issued during Selig's tenure. In 2015, the Shoeless Joe

neg: Doug Young (sculptor) Doug Young (sculptor) Doug Young (born April 9, 1955) is a sculptor of life-size bronze statues. He lives in South Carolina, United States. Young studied under well-known South Carolina artists Emery Bopp, Darell Koons, and Carl Blair as well as the sculptor and restoration artist Adrianus Van Der Staak. Young has lived in North or South Carolina since 1973 and moved to Greenville, South Carolina in 1992. His works include a life-size sculpture of "‘Shoeless’ Joe Jackson", which stands at Greenville's West End. The 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson statue was unveiled on July 13, 2002. Young's other life size works include:

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum request after an official review. "The results of this work demonstrate to me that it is not possible now, over 95 years since those events took place and were considered by Commissioner Landis, to be certain enough of the truth to overrule Commissioner Landis' determinations," he wrote. The museum allows members of the public to visit on Saturdays and conducts private tours during the week. While in Greenville, many visitors to the museum will also visit "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's grave. His grave is located near Bob Jones University. When visiting the grave, members of the public will leave baseball related

neg: 1919 Cincinnati Reds season scored Shoeless Joe Jackson. The Reds retook the lead in the bottom of the fourth inning, when Ivey Wingo singled to right field, scoring Larry Kopf. With two men on base, pitcher Dutch Ruether helped his own cause, hitting a triple, scoring Greasy Neale and Wingo, opening up the Reds lead to 4-1. Morrie Rath then doubled to center field, scoring Ruether, increasing the Cincinnati lead to 5-1, followed by a Jake Daubert single, scoring Rath, giving Cincinnati a 6-1 and knocking Eddie Cicotte out of the game. With Roy Wilkinson in the ballgame, the Reds added two more runs

neg: 1919 Chicago White Sox season and 110 strikeouts (7th in AL). He also led the AL in innings pitched with 240 (shared with Washington Senators pitcher Jim Shaw). Right fielder Joe Jackson hit .351 (4th in AL) with 7 home runs, 96 RBIs (3rd in AL) and had 181 hits (3rd in AL, only 10 less than league leader Ty Cobb of the Detroit Tigers). Shoeless Joe headed an offense that scored the most runs of any team. "Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted

neg: 1919 World Series one of the most powerful teams in baseball. Most of the same players had defeated the New York Giants in the 1917 World Series, four games to two. They had fallen to sixth place in the American League in 1918, largely as a result of losing their best player, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and a few of his teammates as well, to World War I service. Comiskey fired manager Pants Rowland after the season, replacing him with Kid Gleason, who had played over twenty years in the majors but had never managed before. The 88–52 White Sox won the American League

neg: Ted Williams Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott), and seventh in batting average (behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O'Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker). His career batting average of .3444 is the highest of any player who played his entire career in the live-ball era following 1920. Williams was also second to Ruth in career slugging percentage, where he remains today, and still holds the all-time record for on-base percentage, with .4817. He was also second to Ruth in career walks, but has since dropped to fourth place behind Barry Bonds and Rickey Henderson. Williams remains the

neg: Bris Lord Bris Lord Bristol Robotham Lord (September 21, 1883 – November 13, 1964) was an American professional baseball outfielder. He played in Major League Baseball (MLB) from 1905 to 1913 for the Philadelphia Athletics, Cleveland Naps, and Boston Braves. Lord is best known for the deal that sent him to the Athletics in 1910. By then, owner/manager Connie Mack claimed that Lord was essential in their subsequent pennant-winning seasons, even though he was not near the equal of what Mack traded to get him—namely, Shoeless Joe Jackson—, who would go on to hit .408 in his rookie season of 1911 and

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson His hitting ability made him a celebrity around town. Around that time he was given a baseball bat which he named Black Betsy. He was compared to Champ Osteen, another player from the mills who made it to the Majors. He moved from mill team to mill team in search of better pay, playing semi-professional baseball by 1905. According to Jackson, he got his nickname during a mill game played in Greenville, South Carolina. Jackson had blisters on his foot from a new pair of cleats, which hurt so much that he took his shoes off before he was at

neg: 1912 Cleveland Naps season 1912 Cleveland Naps season The Cleveland Naps season was a season in American baseball. The Naps had two of the best hitters in the majors in Shoeless Joe Jackson and Nap Lajoie. Despite this, they ended up back in the second division, finishing in fifth place with a record of 75-78. "Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in" "Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI

neg: Ty Cobb young players. He was instrumental in helping Joe DiMaggio negotiate his rookie contract with the New York Yankees. According to sportswriter Grantland Rice, he and Cobb were returning from the Masters golf tournament in the late 1940s and stopped at a Greenville, South Carolina, liquor store. Cobb noticed that the man behind the counter was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who had been banned from baseball almost 30 years earlier following the Black Sox scandal. Jackson did not appear to recognize him, and after making his purchase an incredulous Cobb asked, "Don't you know me, Joe?" "I know you", replied Jackson, "but

neg: Elmer Flick He missed the majority of the 1908 season, playing in only nine games. He missed the beginning of the 1909 season as well, as a doctor recommended Flick have his appendix removed. Now weighing , Flick was afraid of a bad outcome from the surgery, which was a significant risk at the time. He kept his appendix and played in 66 games, batting .255. He played in another 24 games in the 1910 season before he was again sidelined by his stomach ailment. The Naps acquired Shoeless Joe Jackson from the Athletics in a trade and had him replace Flick

neg: Larry Chappell named later to complete a trade that originally occurred August 21, 1915. In all, the Indians received Chappell, Braggo Roth, Ed Klepfer and $31,500. The White Sox received Shoeless Joe Jackson. Chappell was the most expensive of the players sent to the Indians – he was an $18,000 bonus player. He played in only three games for the Indians, collecting no hits in two at-bats. In May 1916, the Braves purchased him, and in 53 at-bats with them he hit .226. Overall, Chappell hit .218 with nine RBI and two stolen bases in 1916. Chappell played his final season in

neg: 1920 Chicago White Sox season four games to finish two games out. They would not finish in the first division again until 1936. Shoeless Joe Jackson finished third in AL batting average, and Eddie Collins was fifth. Along with the St. Louis Browns, the team was the first in major league history to have three players with at least 200 hits each: Jackson, Collins, and Buck Weaver. "Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in" "Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H

neg: Brooklyn Dreams (group) Brooklyn Dreams (group) The Brooklyn Dreams were a successful singing group of the late 1970s and early 1980s mixing R&B harmonies with contemporary dance/disco music and best known for a number of collaborations with singer Donna Summer. The band consisted of Joe "Bean" Esposito, Eddie Hokenson and Bruce Sudano. Esposito provided lead vocals for the band and played guitar, while Sudano played keyboards and Hokenson played drums and occasionally sang lead vocals. Their biggest hit was the single "Heaven Knows", a single by Donna Summer featuring Joe Esposito on second lead and the group singing backup. Released on the Casablanca

neg: Bill Lindsay (baseball) shore up the infield. He played his first major league game on June 21, 1911 against Ty Cobb and the Detroit Tigers. Players on the Cleveland team during this time were Shoeless Joe Jackson, Cy Young and Nap Lajoie. Once Nap Lajoie recovered from his injuries, Lindsay was made expendable. He played 19 games with the Cleveland Naps. He batted .242 while mainly playing as a third baseman. After he was made expendable by Cleveland, two separate American League clubs wanted to sign Lindsay but the Cleveland owner, Charles Somers, sent him to Cleveland's new farm team, the Portland Beavers.

neg: Ty Cobb will... Cobb was pursued by demons." Cobb was having a tremendous year in 1911, which included a 40-game hitting streak. Still, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson led him by .009 points in the batting race late in the season. Near the end of the season, Cobb's Tigers had a long series against Jackson's Cleveland Naps. Fellow Southerners Cobb and Jackson were personally friendly both on and off the field. Cobb used that friendship to his advantage. Cobb ignored Jackson when Jackson tried to say anything to him. When Jackson persisted, Cobb snapped angrily back at him, making him wonder what he could

neg: D. B. Sweeney D. B. Sweeney Daniel Bernard Sweeney (born November 14, 1961) is an American actor. Sweeney was born in Shoreham, New York, on November 14, 1961. He attended both Tulane and New York University. Sweeney guest-starred in the television series "The Edge of Night" and "". In films, he has played Jackie Willow, a Vietnam-era soldier, in Francis Ford Coppola's "Gardens of Stone" (1987), navigator 1st Lt. Phil Lowenthal in "Memphis Belle" (1990), and Travis Walton in "Fire in the Sky" (1993). He also played former ice hockey player Doug Dorsey in "The Cutting Edge" (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in "Eight

neg: Nemo Leibold Leibold was a member of two American League championship teams. He patrolled right field, alongside sluggers Shoeless Joe Jackson and Hap Felsch. His single in the ninth inning of the 1917 World Series drove in Buck Weaver with the final run of the championship-clinching game for the White Sox. Leibold hit well in 1919; in 122 games, he had a batting average of .302, 17 stolen bases, and set a career-high in OPS+ with 113. However, he batted .056 in the 1919 World Series, getting one hit in 18 at-bats. Leibold was one of just three regulars on the team

neg: Shoeless Joe Jackson batters tripled to left-center and center in Game 1, and to left in Game 2). The only two White Sox errors involving extra-base hits were committed by Shano Collins, in right field. (Collins was never accused in the scandal, and in fact was listed in the indictments as a wronged party—the victim of $1,784 in lost earnings due to the actions of those charged.) Some news accounts quoted Jackson, during grand jury testimony on September 28, 1920, admitting that he agreed to participate in the fix: No such testimony appears in the actual stenographic record of Jackson's grand jury appearance.

neg: Mineral Wells, Texas for the Chicago White Sox, the year of the famous "Black Sox" scandal involving "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. Mineral Wells also hosted spring training for the Cincinnati Reds and St. Louis Cardinals in the 1910s and early 1920s. The baseball field was located in the center of town where a shopping center now sits. In 1952, Mineral Wells was the host of the Republican state convention in which delegates divided between presidential candidates Dwight D. Eisenhower and Robert A. Taft. Though state chairman Orville Bullington of Wichita Falls led the Taft forces, the convention vote ultimately went 33-5 in favor of

neg: 1919 Cincinnati Reds season Field in front of 13,323 fans, as the Reds started Slim Sallee, against Eddie Cicotte of the White Sox. Chicago opened the scoring in the top of the first inning, when Shoeless Joe Jackson singled home Eddie Collins, giving Chicago a 1-0 lead. In the third inning, Chicago struck again, on another single by Jackson, which scored Collins, as Chicago took a 2-0 lead. In the fifth inning, the White Sox continued to pile on the offense, as Happy Felsch singled off of Sallee, scoring Collins and Buck Weaver. Sallee was then pulled out of the game, and Chicago had

neg: If I Never Get Back (novel) while the "Los Angeles Times" called it "the wildest and most satisfying yarn since W. P. Kinsella's "Shoeless Joe"". Because of its detailed description of nineteenth century baseball rules, the book is said to have inspired many Vintage Base Ball clubs to form throughout the United States. Brock said of these clubs, "They invite me to their conventions because my character does what they all want to do: They want to go back in time." Brock wrote a sequel in 2002 entitled, "Two in the Field". If I Never Get Back (novel) If I Never Get Back is the 1990

neg: 1919 Cincinnati Reds season run when Bill Rariden singled home Duncan. In the second inning, Heinie Groh singled off of James, then was brought home after a double by Edd Roush, as Cincinnati took a 5-0 lead. The White Sox got on the board in the third inning, as Shoeless Joe Jackson hit a home run to right field, cutting the Reds lead to 5-1. In the fifth inning, the Reds Larry Kopf tripled off of Bill James, and was brought home after a Greasy Neale single, making it 6-1 Cincinnati. The Reds continued to pour on the offense in the sixth inning, when

neg: Harry Coveleski for $1,000, putting him on the team that be showcased in his brand-new steel-and-concrete Rickwood Field stadium. Coveleski got the start on the park's August 18, opening day, earning a no-decision in a 3-2 victory against the Montgomey Climbers in front of 10,000 fans. He ended up pitching two no-hitters for the Barons (though he lost one in extra innings), and won 21 games, including eleven straight decisions, to end the season with a 1.55 ERA. His final appearance for Birmingham was a 1-0 shutout against the league-champion New Orleans Pelicans in which he held their star slugger Shoeless Joe

neg: 1919 Cincinnati Reds season inning, getting the complete game, as Cincinnati held on for a 4-2 win, and took a 2-0 series lead. October 3, 1919, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, Illinois The series shifted over to Comiskey Park in Chicago for the third game. Ray Fisher got the start for Cincinnati, against Dickey Kerr for the White Sox in front of 29,126 fans. The White Sox opened the scoring in the second inning, as Chick Gandil singled to left field, scoring Shoeless Joe Jackson and Happy Felsch, giving Chicago a 2-0 lead. The Sox added to their lead in the fourth, when Ray

neg: Tris Speaker Speaker felt bad for contributing to Fohl's departure. Speaker guided the 1920 Indians to their first World Series win. In a crucial late season game against the second-place White Sox, Speaker caught a hard line drive hit to deep right-center field by Shoeless Joe Jackson, ending the game. On a dead run, Speaker leaped with both feet off the ground, snaring the ball before crashing into a concrete wall. As he lay unconscious from the impact, Speaker still held the baseball. In the 1920 World Series against Brooklyn, Speaker hit an RBI triple in the deciding game, which the Indians

neg: 1911 Cleveland Naps season Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in" "Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts" "Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned Run Average; SO = Strikeouts" Vean Gregg Shoeless Joe Jackson Gene Krapp 1911 Cleveland Naps season The 1911 Cleveland Naps season was a season in American major league baseball. It involved the Cleveland Naps attempting to win

neg: Dan Gutman "Baseball Card Adventures" series, illustrated by Steve Chorney, revolves around a child named Joe Stoshack who travels back in time to meet baseball legends. The first work is based on the premise of his finding a Honus Wagner T206 baseball card in the attic of his neighbor. Further books in the series feature Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Dorothy Maguire, Abner Doubleday, Satchel Paige, Jim Thorpe, Ray Chapman, Roberto Clemente, Ted Williams, and Willie Mays. The original story, "Honus & Me", was made into the Turner Network Television TV-movie "The Winning Season", starring Matthew Modine and Kristin Davis.

neg: Joseph Phillips (field hockey) Joseph Phillips (field hockey) Joseph "Joe" Phillips (March 24, 1911 – 1986) was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics. He was a member of the Indian field hockey team, which won the gold medal. He played one match as back. Joseph "Joe" Phillips was a Pune based hockey player. Joseph was born on March 24, 1911. Phillips was an Indian field hockey player who competed in the 1936 Summer Olympics at Berlin and won the gold medal. He played one match as back. India played 5 matches in the tournament and the team won

neg: Williamston, South Carolina school which eventually moved to the city of Greenwood and became Lander University. Dr. Lander was instrumental in prohibiting the sale of liquor in town, a feeling which exists today in this community served by more than 70 churches. Around the turn of the century the cotton mills settled near the river and played major roles in shaping the communities. Many families still treasure memories of events sponsored by the mills and of teams playing in the old textile leagues. Shoeless Joe Jackson took his first steps on Pelzer's mill hill and went on to become one of the greatest