Joe Jackson
Subtitle: A Biography (Baseball's All-Time Greatest Hitters)
Publisher: Greenwood Press; Greenwood
Published: October 30, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9780313329616
Subjects: Baseball; Sports & Recreation; Biography / Autobiography; Sports; Baseball - General; Sports - Baseball; Sports & Recreation / General; General; 1888-1951; Baseball players; Biography; Jackson, Joe,; United States
Description: ""Shoeless" Joe Jackson's rise from the cotton mills of the American South to the big cities of the North is a classic American tale of rags to riches. Born of sharecropping parents in South Carolina, Jackson's perfect swing and legendary fielding ability would make him a star in the Major Leagues. Unfortunately, Jackson's legend was interrupted by his alleged involvement in baseball's darkest chapter, the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, which ultimately banished him to participation in "outlaw" baseball leagues. Kelly Boyer Sagert recounts all phases in this legendary hitter's life - from mill worker to major league outfielder, to an alleged figure in a national scandal, and later, to his ventures as an entrepreneur and sometime ballplayer.

In analyzing the life and surrounding cultural contexts of Jackson's time, the author examines how "Shoeless Joe" became the controversial but enduring legend that he is today. A timeline, bibliography, statistical appendix, and narrative chapter on the making of the Jackson legend enhance this biography."--Jacket.