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  1.                                  from a large, poor family in
  2.                                  South Carolina and had to
  3.                                  work instead of attending 
  4.                                  school. Some people felt
  5.                                  that his poor background
  6. and lack of education made it easy for him to
  7. be taken advantage of by the gamblers in
  8. 1919. 
  9.  
  10. After leaving baseball, Shoeless Joe returned 
  11. to South Carolina. He would often take Black 
  12. Betsy and play in sandlot games -- the only 
  13. kind of baseball he was allowed to play.
  14.