What Shoeless Joe Jackson said about Baseball

    As Told to Mr. Kinsella for his book on Jackson.

    Joe said: I love the Game. I woulda played for food money. I woulda played for free and worked for food money.  I loved the parks the smell  the sounds. Have you ever held a bat to your face or a ball, the leather , the varnish.The crowd excitement a chorus rising like thunder when you hit the long ball, the tin lizzies in the parking lot chugging along, the hotels with the spittoons and brass beds. It gives me a tingle just to think about it, like a kid going to his first double header.