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| Just Joe: Baseball's Natural |
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| By Thomas Perry |
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| ISBN: 978-1-929763-30-6
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| Price: $17.95 |
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| Just Joe: Baseball's Natural, as told by his wife highlights the extraordinary career of South
Carolina's
Joseph Jefferson Jackson, more well-known as "Shoeless Joe." Related from the imagined perspective of his
wife
Katie, Just Joe examines the life of a couple devoted to baseball, and more importantly, to each
other. Jackson's career, especially his batting prowess and his involvement in the 1919 World Series
"Black
Sox" scandal, is well known. However, what's largely unknown is how Joe and Katie Jackson gracefully
weathered
the criticism and condemnation from fans and the first commissioner of the game, Judge Kenesaw Mountain
Landis.
With a quiet dignity, Jackson relied on his fabled Black Betsy bat, scorching "blue darters" and winning
the
hearts of fans long after his major league days were over. Through it all, Katie Jackson offers a
sympathetic
portrait of her man and their life and times.
Just Joe: Baseball's Natural is also available as an ebook on Amazon.com for the Kindle. Thomas K. Perry is also the author of
the
play,
Shoeless
Joe, which premiered in 1995. |
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