SOURCE: Grady, Wayne. “From Majors to Miners, by Way of Left Field.” Books in Canada 9-10 (1980-1981): 8-9.

In the following review, Grady discusses the true story of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson and compares Shoeless Joe Jackson Comes to Iowa to Sheldon Currie's Glace Bay Miner's Museum.

For the record, Joseph Jefferson (“Shoeless Joe”) Jackson probably never saw Iowa, let alone played baseball there. There was an Iowa and South Dakota League for two years (1902-03), with teams in LeMars, Sheldon, Rock Rapids, and Sioux City. But Shoeless Joe was born in South Carolina in 1887 and played his Class D ball in the Carolina and Southern Associations in the early years of the century. Clinton, Iowa, had a Class C team in the Northern Association in 1910, but by then Jackson had broken into the majors with Connie Mack and the Philadelphia Athletics. In 1910 he moved to the Cleveland Indians...