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Old 03-14-2007, 04:05 PM
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Posted By: peter chao

Guys,

Wikipedia is great, according to Shoeless Joe himself he was playing in the minors in 1908 in Greenville and had bought a new pair of shoes. The shoes were causing blisters on his feet so he went to bat in his stocking feet. By chance he lined a triple and as he was coming into 3d base, a fan shouted, "you shoeless sonuvagun." The nickname Shoeless Joe Jackson stuck and he never played shoeless again.

Peter

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