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...collection belonged to "Shoeless Joe" Jackson, the Chicago White Sox outfielder who was banned from baseball for life, along with seven teammates, for throwing the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds...
...irsute, shoeless hippies huddled in doorways, smoking pot, 'rapping' (achieving rapport with random talk), or banging beer cans in time to ubiquitous jukebox rhythms. Last week the sidewalks and doorways were filling with new arrivals just off the bus and looking for a place to 'crash' (sleep). They scorn money--they call it 'bread.' They feel 'uptight' (tense and frightened) about many disparate things--from sex to the draft, college grades to thermonuclear war." --July 7, 1967, from a cover story on San Francisco's hippies
Coming off a stellar weekend of hockey, the Harvard men's hockey team was pumped and prepared for the Beanpot. Then, just as the baseball world could not believe it when the beloved Shoeless Joe Jackson was found cheating, the Harvard fans and players could not believe that three of their leaders, their seniors, would have to sit out the first round match of the Beanpot...
Have you ever felt the warm Iowa night air touch your skin as Shoeless Joe shouts his timeless query at Ray Kinsella before disappearing back into the corn? Have you ever imagined yourself in darkened Knights Field, watching Roy Hobbs round third base? Do you share the certainty that Crash Davis will make it to The Show as a manager...
...process, Judge Landis denied men like Shoeless Joe Jackson and Buck Weever their rightful places in the Baseball Hall of Fame...