Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of Shoeless Joe Jackson Audiobook (Free)

Considered by Ty Cobb as the “finest natural hitter in the annals of the overall game,” “Shoeless Joe” Jackson is usually ranked with the best players to ever stage onto a baseball diamond. Using a profession .356 batting average—which continues to be ranked third all-time—the man from Pickens State, SC, was on his way to becoming one of the greatest players in the sport’s history. That’s before “Black Sox” scandal of 1919, which shook football to its core.

Even though many have sympathized with Jackson’s about Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson ban from baseball (even though he hit .375 through the 1919 World Series), very little is truly known about this quiet slugger. Whether he participated in the tossing from the World Series or not really, he is still considered one of the video game’s best, and several have got fought for his induction in to the National Football Hall of Popularity.

From the writer of Turning the Black Sox White (on Charles Comiskey) and War around the Basepaths (on Ty Cobb), Fall from Grace tells the story from the incredible life of Joseph Jefferson Jackson. From a mill young man to a baseball icon, writer Tim Hornbaker reduces the rise and fall of “Shoeless Joe,” giving an inside look during baseball’s Deadball Period, including Jackson’s personal perspective of the “Dark Sox” scandal, which has never been covered before.