Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
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Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9781630760090
ISBN-13 : 1630760099
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Book Synopsis Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball by : Harvey Frommer

Download or read book Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball written by Harvey Frommer and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-10-01 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Another peek at baseball's good old days—or, in this case, bad old days—by veteran sports-historian Harvey Frommer. Frommer paints Shoeless Joe as a baseball natural ("Joe Jackson hit the ball harder than any man ever to play baseball"—Ty Cobb), an illiterate hick (his table utensils consisted of knife and fingers), and an innocent man snared by the greatest scandal in baseball history.


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