Word: shoelessness
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Ever since that mythic street urchin wailed, "Say it ain't so, Joe" to Shoeless Joe Jackson after he confessed that he was involved in fixing the 1919 World Series, generations of sad-eyed children have been forced to learn that baseball can be a cruel business. So it was in Oakland with 14-year-old Jeremy Musser and his brother Nick, 11. The moral for Nick is that "the players are getting too greedy." Jeremy's allegiance to the game is in danger of fading. "If I can't be a baseball fan," he said practically, "I'll probably...
Since Bernard Malamud (The Natural) and Mark Harris (Bang the Drum Slowly) made it O.K. to get all misty about guys in funny-looking knickers, the first- base box seats have been full of writers. To cite a few, W.P. Kinsella wrote Shoeless Joe (Field of Dreams, in its film version), and George Plimpton came up with the sly and flaky The Curious Case of Sidd Finch. New Yorker sage Roger Angell wrote about spring training over and over, decade after decade, in words so fine that people who would rather have their teeth fixed than go to an actual...
Denizen of sports bars and bleacher seats, failed Little Leaguer and aspiring poet, the sportsman-philosopher has risen from the empty locker room of our collective consciousness to create such classic odysseys as The Natural, Shoeless Joe and The Iowa Baseball Confederacy...
...Maher gives those few dedicated fans who attend the games their money's worth. While the cornfields of Iowa may be a place to revisit the past and relive the days of the great Shoeless Joe, the freshman from the Hawkeye state has turned Briggs Cage into her own field of dreams...
...lifetime ban will not make fans and writers forget Rose, the game's record-holder for most career hits. It's kind of hard to overlook what Rose accomplished as a player. Interesting to see whether he eventually makes the Hall of Fame. If Rose does, then so must "Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Orlando Cepeda and Ferguson Jenkins, just to name a few greats whom baseball has forgotten...