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1 giorno fa · In 1918, Shoeless Joe Jackson of the Chicago White Sox announced that he had taken a job as a painter with a shipbuilding subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel. It wasn’t that uncommon for professional ...
2 giorni fa · But this was the same gift Shoeless Joe Jackson received for winning the 1917 World Series. Now remember, this was before teams gave rings to their players after winning the World Series. But Joe turned his gift into a ring, which may have inadvertently been the first World Series ring ever.
1 giorno fa · Kinsella’s first collection of baseball stories Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes To Iowa (1980) presaged his classic magic realism novel Shoeless Joe (1982), which won the Canadian Authors Association Prize, the Alberta Achievement Award, Books in Canada First Novel Award, and the Houghton Mifflin Literary Fellowship.
1 giorno fa · Other featured items include a Jackie Robinson game-worn 1951 Brooklyn Dodgers jersey with pants from 1950 (estimate: US$6 million), and a “Shoeless Joe” Jackson’s 1911 game-used bat ...
4 giorni fa · O longa dirigido por Phil Alden Robinson é uma adaptação do romance 'Shoeless Joe', do autor canadense W. P. Kinsella. O enredo combina ficção e realidade ao retratar as histórias de jogadores de beisebol que de fato existiram, como 'Shoeless' Joe Jackson e Moonlight Graham, misturadas à jornada de Ray Kinsella (personagem de Costner).
2 giorni fa · At the time of his retirement, Williams ranked third all-time in home runs (behind Babe Ruth and Jimmie Foxx), seventh in RBIs (after Ruth, Cap Anson, Lou Gehrig, Ty Cobb, Foxx, and Mel Ott), and seventh in batting average (behind Cobb, Rogers Hornsby, Shoeless Joe Jackson, Lefty O'Doul, Ed Delahanty and Tris Speaker).
3 giorni fa · The voice whispers, “If you build it, he will come,” at which point, a vision appears. A baseball diamond and Ray Liotta playing “Shoeless” Joe Jackson, one of the so-called Black Sox. Without going into the history of baseball, let’s just say things didn’t work out so well for them. (See Eight Men Out for more on that subject.)
