Say It Ain’t So, Joe
For most Americans of a certain age, the iconic movie Field of Dreams strikes a chord. Using baseball as a metaphor, the film extols virtue, goodness, faith, innocence, and the all-Americanism of a not-too-long-ago past. In W.P. Kinsella’s novel Shoeless Joe, on which the movie was based, Kinsella tells the tale of the Black Sox Scandal. Eight members of the Chicago White Sox...