Joseph Jefferson Jackson (July 16, 1887 – December 5, 1951), nicknamed "Shoeless Joe", was an American outfielder who played Major League Baseball (MLB)...
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Academy Awards. The novel was expanded from Kinsella's short story "Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa", first published in his 1980 collection of the same...
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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...
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Shoeless Joe's is a sports-themed restaurant chain located in Ontario, Canada. The chain was founded in Toronto, Ontario, in 1985. They specialize in chicken...
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Black Sox Scandal (section Joe Jackson)
reinstatement in the decades that followed (particularly in the case of Shoeless Joe Jackson), the ban remains in force. In 1919, Charles Comiskey, the owner...
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Field of Dreams (category Cultural depictions of Shoeless Joe Jackson)
cornfield that attracts the ghosts of baseball legends, including Shoeless Joe Jackson (Ray Liotta) and the Chicago Black Sox. Amy Madigan, James Earl Jones...
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Joe Jackson (defensive end) (born 1996), American football player Shoeless Joe Jackson (1887–1951), American baseball player in Black Sox Scandal Joe...
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Ain't So, Joe" (song), by Murray Head, 1975, and covered by Roger Daltrey, 1977 "Say it ain't so, Joe", a phrase regarding Shoeless Joe Jackson Say It Ain't...
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Globe Award nomination. He was best known for his portrayals of Shoeless Joe Jackson in the film Field of Dreams (1989) and Henry Hill in the film Goodfellas...
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record. The highest batting average for a rookie was .408 in 1911 by Shoeless Joe Jackson. The league batting average in MLB for the 2018 season was .248,...
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(1993). He also starred in films such as The Cutting Edge (1992), Shoeless Joe Jackson in Eight Men Out (1988), Dinosaur (2000), and Brother Bear (2003)...
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Betsy was the primary baseball bat of Shoeless Joe Jackson. It was hand made by a fan of his in 1903 when Jackson was still only 15. It broke the record...
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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...
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Grounds, a feat believed to have been previously accomplished only by Shoeless Joe Jackson. The Yankees won, 6–0, taking three out of four from the Red Sox...
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seven players ineligible who did not play in at least 10 seasons. Shoeless Joe Jackson is ineligible for the Hall of Fame because he was permanently banned...
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Eight Men Out (category Cultural depictions of Shoeless Joe Jackson)
Swede Risberg, and Lefty Williams, go along with the scheme. "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, the team's illiterate superstar, is also invited, but is depicted...
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received votes. Individuals who had been banned from baseball – such as Shoeless Joe Jackson and Hal Chase – were also not formally excluded, though few voters...
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.370 in six consecutive seasons. Other notable players include: Shoeless Joe Jackson batted .356 over 13 seasons before he was permanently suspended from...
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existed instead of the actual three (Ty Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, and Shoeless Joe Jackson). His Harvard colleague Stephen Jay Gould, citing Purcell's work...
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York Giants in six games with help from stars Eddie Cicotte and "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. The Sox were heavily favored in the 1919 World Series, but lost...
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or "Shoeless Joe" Jackson. Many others have been barred from participation in MLB, but none have Hall of Fame qualifications on the level of Jackson or...
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decisions in the Black Sox matter remain controversial: supporters of "Shoeless Joe" Jackson and Buck Weaver contend that he was overly harsh. Others blame Landis...
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search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2022-06-08. "MLB won't reinstate Shoeless Joe Jackson". ESPN. September 1, 2015. Retrieved September 1, 2015. Siebert,...
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Tom Stouch (section Shoeless Joe Jackson)
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...
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as a park entrance. Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum & Baseball Library, located in the historic home of baseballer Shoeless Joe Jackson adjacent to Fluor Field...
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Shoeless Joe Jackson (1908). A native of the Greenville, South Carolina area, Shoeless Joe Jackson played for the 1908 Greenville Spinners. Jackson hit...
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1964. "Shoeless" Joe Jackson. (The precise extent of Jackson's involvement is controversial.) Jackson died in 1951. Buck Weaver, like Jackson, was controversially...
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counter was "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, who had been banned from baseball almost 30 years earlier following the Black Sox scandal. Jackson did not appear...
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consecutive wins at 22 games.[citation needed] Batting average: Shoeless Joe Jackson, .408 (1911) On-base percentage: Tris Speaker, .483 (1920) Slugging...
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League in 1918, largely as a result of losing their best player, Shoeless Joe Jackson, and a few other teammates to World War I service. The team's owner...
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