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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Digging up his corn to build a ballpark will inspire the return of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson, a man whose reputation was forever tarnished by the scandalous 1919 World Series.
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John Fielding,
CEO
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The most complete and comprehensive site devoted to the memory of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the movement to persuade Major League Baseball to remove Joe Jackson from their ineligible list, thereby making him eligible for election to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
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Phuong Nguyen,
Exotic Dancer
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He interrogated Collins about Shoeless Joe Jackson , Babe Ruth , Lou Gehrig and Cobb.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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We mastered The Shoeless Joe Jackson Quartet Plays Benny Goodman for release on GHB Records.
Nicknamed ‘Shoeless’ Joe when he incidentally played ball barefoot after getting blisters on his feet from a new pair of cleats, Jackson had a spectacular 13-year career and was known for a swing so perfect, the great Babe Ruth admitted to copying it.
"Shoeless Joe" Jackson's Autograph There are no known autographs of Joe Jackson.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Second, Shoeless Joe is perhaps the most fabled figure in all of baseball lore, and more than his country nickname, his on-the-field feats or the mythic tales surrounding his post-Major League life, Jackson's special relationship with his bats has always been his defining emblem.
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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Connie Mack Trades Jackson to Cleveland - 1909 Unable to get along with his team mates, Philadelphia owner Connie Mack traded "Shoeless Joe" Jackson to the Cleveland Naps as the 1909 season had barely begun.
Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of the players banned from baseball as a result of the Black Sox Scandal of 1919.
Black Sox Scandal - 1916 Shoeless Joe Jackson, becomes everyone's hero as he hits.
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Josh Hogan,
Commander
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This photo is an excerpt from the A's 1909 Program and is one of only a few known to exist that depict Shoeless Joe Jackson in an Athletics uniform.
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David Rosenberg,
Dermatologist
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Starring local actor John Cusack as White Sox star, Shoeless Joe Jackson, though, Sayles was historically accurate in his screenplay.
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