I began to become desensitized to the ways of the modern athlete as well, thus losing faith in many of the men I once idolized, relating myself to the little boy in the movie Eight Men Out who frantically begged Shoeless Joe Jackson to "Say it ain't so."

Five points that should be mentioned: Since 1901, for any player in his age-23 season, Vaughan's 190 OPS+ is the fifth highest, behind the values posted by Williams in '42 (216), Ty Cobb in '10 (206), Ruth in '18 (194) and Shoeless Joe Jackson in '11...

Ted Williams winning the Triple Crown in 1942; Mark McGwire setting a new rookie record with 49 home runs in '87; Shoeless Joe Jackson batting .408 in his rookie season in '11; Al Simmons banging out 253 hits in '25; Hank Greenberg blasting 63 doubles...

Two wrongs do not make a right, but Rose would not be alone as a member of the Hall of Fame who has done foolish and horrible things. There is no sense revisiting the sins of others who are in the Hall but I will at least visit the case of another on...

S.C. , is where everything you think you know about “Shoeless” Joe Jackson is wrong. Here in his home town, where a statue of Shoeless Joe occupies a prominent spot on Main Street, where kids still play on Shoeless Joe field and the Shoeless Joe museum...

Madrid holds a seven-point lead in the league, ahead of Barcelona, the world’s most lauded team. Yet he appears to be plotting his own departure. The stories that José Mourinho will quit Spain after this season to return to England could be stopped in...