Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

Harvey Frommer

ISBN 10: 0878338209 / ISBN 13: 9780878338207

Published by Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX, 1993

About this Item

Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX. 1993. Softcover/Trade Wraps. 3rd Printing by Line Number. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Very Good; small spots of edge bumping on the fore edge and top of front wrap. No DJ. Pictorial card stock wraps. Wraps are not bent or folded; spine is not creased or split; text is secure in binding. 225 pp 8vo. A revealing look at the greatest sports scandal of the century- the Black Sox and the 1919 World Series. Contains the complete never before published Grand Jury Testimony by Joe Jackson. This book helps to shed some light on the question of Joe Jackson being guilty of helping to throw games and cause the highly favored Chicago White Sox to lose the 1919 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Or was he an innocent victim of circumstances since he had an outstanding World Series performance. A clean very presentable copy.

Seller Inventory # 013487

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball
• Publisher: Taylor Publishing Company, Dallas, TX
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0878338209
• ISBN 13: 9780878338207
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Printing: 3rd Printing
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • Biographies
  • Baseball
  • Police/Sheriff/Law Enforcement/Crime/Murder

About this title

Synopsis

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 untemsils consisted of knife and fingers), and an innocent man snared by the greatest scandal in baseball history.

About the Author

Harvey Frommer is the celebrated author of more than forty-two sports books, including Remembering Yankee Stadium, Remembering Fenway Park, and A Yankee Century. Frommer is a professor in the Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program at Dartmouth College. He lives in Lyme, New Hampshire.