Fall From Grace

You may have seen Eight Men Out or Field of Dreams, but you won’t really know the full story of Shoeless Joe Jackson and the Black Sox scandal of 1919 without reading Tim Hornbaker’s book. “Haunting portrait of one of the game’s most controversial and complex figures”—David Nemec, author, Official Rules of Baseball. Considered by Ty Cobb as “the finest natural hitter in the history of the game,” “Shoeless Joe” Jackson is ranked with the greatest players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career batting average of .356—which is still ranked third best all time—the man from Pickens County, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. That is, until the “Black Sox” scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core.

*Fun fact, Page & Post sits in Joe Jackson's old liquor store and we are always more than happy to share little tidbits with the passerby baseball fan. 

• Paperback

• By Tim Hornbaker

• 296 pages

• 6" x 9"