1888-1951

Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.

Examines the life and career of baseball legend Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson, better known as "Shoeless Joe," a nickname he earned after blisters forced him to play in his stockings, discussing his poor beginnings, his success in the sport, his involvement in the 1919 World Series scandal, and his later years.

"Shoeless" Joe Jackson's rise from the cotton mills of the south to the major leagues is a classic American tale of rags to riches. Unfortunately his career was interrupted by his alleged involvement in baseball's White Sox "fixed game" scandal of 1919.

Shoeless Joe Jackson, said by some to be the greatest baseball player ever, goes into a hitting slump just before he is to start his minor league career, so he asks his friend to make him a special bat to help him hit.

"If you build it, he will com.e" The mysterious words of an Iowa baseball announcer lead Ray Kinsella to carve a baseball diamond in his cornfield in honor of his hero, the baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson.

Joe Stoshack travels back to 1919, where he meets Shoeless Joe Jackson and tries to prevent the fixing of the World Series in which Jackson was wrongly implicated.