Shoeless Joe And Me Analysis

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In the book Shoeless Joe and Me, Dan Gutman talks about the old time baseball player Shoeless Joe Jackson. Joe was a baseball player for the Chicago White Sox. He was involved in a scandal that’ll never be forgotten. This story is about a baseball fan who has the powers to go back in the time of the year a baseball card is. He wanted to travel back in time to 1919, to find out if Shoeless Joe was really involved in this or if he was against it. He also wanted to stop it from happening. In this story Dan Gutman stresses that Shoeless Joe Jackson had nothing to do with this scandal. Joe wanted to revere the White Sox franchise by overcoming the players who were trying to throw the World Series. One of the ways Dan Gutman

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