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Jimmie Reese: The Career and the Man

By Tom Willman

I was driving us down Westwood Boulevard in L.A. headed toward lunch at Junior’s, when we had this conversation. This was maybe 1990. I think I asked Jimmie if he’d ever seen any of the Chicago Black Sox. “Swede Risberg,” he said. “Really?  What was he like?"  “Hard-nosed,” he said matter-of-factly. “A hard-nosed ballplayer, but a nice guy.”1 I still replay that snippet of conversation in my head. It contrasts so sharply with the memorable description that Shoeless Joe Jackson . . .

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