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Originally Posted by gnaz01
If some of you didn't know, there is a GREAT Shoeless Joe article called "This Is The Truth" in the 1949 Sport Magazine with Mathewson on the cover. It is written in Joe's words, and is a great interview. He states (and I am paraphrasing) that most folks thought of him as an "ignorant cotton-mill boy with nothing but lint where his brain ought to be". It is an awesome 5 page magazine article with some GREAT baseball content and shows him in his liquor store, etc.
I highly recommend picking up a copy and reading it. You can pick it up on the 'bay for around $20-$40 and is well worth it as a collectible.
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I believe this is the article
http://www.blackbetsy.com/theTruth.html
- Brent