Book Review: Shoeless Joe and Ragtime Baseball

As Harvey Frommer indicates in the new introduction to this old tale, some stories will never go away and the 1919 Black Sox scandal is one of them. In Saying It's So , Daniel Nathan argues that this particular tale has been retold every generation because it is so central to America's culture and history. Instead of letting it go, we've got to dust it off and tell it again (and again) in the form of non-fiction, fiction, and film. Frommer's book, which was recently reissued just 16 years after its last release, focuses on the life and times of the slugger from Greenville, South Carolina, but the tragic end of the story is never far from the mind of the reader who is familiar with the drama's final act.