Regarded as by Ty Cobb as the “finest natural hitter in the annals of the game,” “Shoeless Joe” Jackson is certainly ranked with the best players to ever step onto a baseball diamond. With a career .356 batting average—which is still ranked third all-time—the man from Pickens Region, South Carolina, was on his way to becoming one of the biggest players in the sport’s history. That is before “Black Sox” scandal of 1919, which shook baseball to its core.

Even though many have sympathized with Jackson’s about Fall from Grace: The Truth and Tragedy of “Shoeless Joe” Jackson ban from baseball (despite the fact that he hit .375 during the 1919 World Series), very little is actually known about this quiet slugger. Whether he participated in the throwing of the Globe Series or not really, he is still considered one of the video game’s best, and many have fought for his induction in to the National Baseball Hall of Popularity.

From the writer of Turning the Black Sox White (on Charles Comiskey) and War on the Basepaths (on Ty Cobb), Fall from Grace tells the storyplot from the incredible life of Joseph Jefferson Jackson. From a mill guy to a football icon, writer Tim Hornbaker reduces the rise and fall of “Shoeless Joe,” offering an inside look during baseball’s Deadball Era, including Jackson’s personal perspective of the “Black Sox” scandal, which includes never been covered before.