Shoeless Joe is the first magic realist novel.
 KinsellaShoeless Joe & Me by Dan Gutman== External links ==Career statistics and player information from MLB, or ESPN, or Baseball Reference, or Fangraphs, or Baseball Reference (Minors), or RetrosheetShoeless Joe Jackson at Find a Grave ShoelessJoeJackson
=== Nickname ===In an interview published in the October 1949 edition of Sport magazine, Jackson recalled he got his nickname during a mill game played in Greenville, South Carolina

