5/22/2023 0 Comments Shoeless joe author![]() ![]() And mythology is sort of a hanging curveball for writers and film-makers.īorn in Pickens County, South Carolina, around 1888, give or take a year (the Jackson family Bible, which recorded such events, was destroyed in a fire) Joe Jackson, by all accounts, was a remarkable natural athlete.ĭonald Gropman’s 1979 biography Say It Ain’t So, Joe! contains most of the details of Jackson’s life, although it is scarcely an unbiased account. The name, Shoeless Joe Jackson the actual historic figure born in the rural South his bat, Black Betsy, and his role in the 1919 Black Sox Scandal the wounded plea of a small boy on the courthouse steps and baseball itself-are all the stuff of mythology. There is a mythic quality in both of these poems. The other is a phrase Say it ain’t so, Joe, delivered sadly, with its final rhyme. Read it aloud and feel the assonance and alliteration. ![]() One is simply a name – Shoeless Joe Jackson. Two of the poems I most admire are very short. ![]()
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