01196cam a2200301 4500 1262016939 TxAuBib 990714s2002||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 99040563 9780689829130 0689829132 (OCoLC)12267 TxAuBib Bildner, Phil. Shoeless Joe & Black Betsy / by Phil Bildner ; illustrated by C.F. Payne. Shoeless Joe and Black Betsy. 1st ed. New York : Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, 2002. 1 v. (unpaged) : col. ill. ; 30 cm. 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. 790 Lexile. 790 Lexile. Accelerated Reader AR LG 4.8 0.5 57764. Jackson, Joe 1888-1951 Juvenile fiction. Jackson, Joe 1888-1951 Fiction. Baseball Fiction. Payne, C. F., ill.