Shoeless Joe Jackson

Charlie Pasarell has long been tennis' answer to baseball's Field of Dreams. Pasarell built it, and they came. Actually, Pasarell kept building, and the players kept coming. No singular sensation for this visionary of the sport. Monday in New York,...

Shoeless Joe Jackson would have been one of the first inductees into the Baseball Hall of Fame if not for his involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. He was one of eight Chicago White Sox players to accept payoffs from gamblers to throw the World...

One day, Ray Kinsella was walking in his cornfield in Iowa when he heard a voice whisper to him, “If you build it, he will come.” If you can remember back to 1989, that scene unfolded in the movie fantasy “Field of Dreams.” Ray...

FOOTBALL URBAN LEGEND: The NFL's official football has a name. Giving names to inanimate objects is a tradition that has been going on for centuries, from the christening of vessels on their way to sea to the guy down the......

 A little background for this post is probably in order. On Friday, Sam1 and I went and took in a softball game at the park at the corner of Sheffiled, Lincoln and Wrightwood, right by where the old Hoagie Hut used to be. Full disclosure, the team we...

Ah, Iowa, land of corn -- and now, movie-making corruption. The Farm Belt is learning a painful lesson these days in the glitzy, star-studded world of Hollywood's accounting practices: Like in the baseball movie "Field of Dreams," if you build......

Jan. 28, 1934: John Lardner on Shoeless Joe Jackson. July 6, 1934: Jackson makes another attempt to play ball. John Lardner was the son of Ring Lardner Sr. and the older brother of Ring Lardner Jr. I???m not familiar with him, but he seems to be a...

"You can't just go against everyone," Chloe O'Brian whines to Jack Bauer. Sure he can. What show has she been watching all these years? Having been betrayed by his president, Bauer breaks free of the CTU agents assigned to keep......

In the big picture, a federal grand jury's indictment of Barry Bonds has now underscored the lie that was baseball's steroid era, and the Mitchell report is still to come. If you can't tell the players without a scorecard, the soon-to-be-released...

Speaking of old guys with blogs (see post below), Southern sportswriting institution Furman Bisher now has one! Bisher, who once famously interviewed Shoeless Joe Jackson about the unpleasant events of 1919, turns 90 on Election Day. I hope young readers....

ESPN's latest "Mt. Rushmore of Sports" release doesn't make much more sense to me than the last one. It appears Babe Ruth, Jackie Robinson, Joe Namath and Manhasset's own Jim Brown will represent New York in this feature. I'm not......

While Schwab was building up Bethlehem Steel, he was also engaging his workers' talents outside the plant. He gave the employees $25,000 to develop athletics among themselves, and the result was a championship soccer team. Between 1913 and 1930, the...