In the 1982 novel "Shoeless Joe," a farmer hears a voice telling him to build a baseball field in his corn fields. When he does, Shoeless Joe Jackson and other baseball players of yesteryear come to play. In 2011 the Canadian baseball Hall of Fame awarded him the Jack Graney Award for a significant contribution to the game of baseball in Canada. Scott Crawford, the Canadian Baseball Hall of Fame's director of operations, said he was saddened to learn of the author's death. "His most famous book was the classic 'Shoeless Joe,' which inspired one of my favorite movies, 'Field of Dreams'."

Source: Fox News September 17, 2016 03:33 UTC