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Shoeless Joe and Me
A Baseball Card Adventure
By Gutman, Dan
Publishers Summary:
- ISBN
- 978-0-06029-253-9
- Publisher
- New York : HarperCollins, c2002.
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School Library Journal
Reviewed on March 1, 2002
Gr 4-7 "Life isn't always fair," the team's sponsor tells 13-year-old Joe "Stosh" Stoshack after an umpire errs in calling him out during the Louisville Little League Championship. To reinforce his message, Flip tells the boy about the 1919 Black Sox Scandal, when gamblers allegedly paid Shoeless Joe Jackson and seven other members of the Chicago White Sox to throw the World Series. They were expelled from baseball for life, but Flip contends that the illiterate Jackson was i...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
