Since the game’s early days, baseball mythology has been constructed — often deliberately — to set itself apart.

In a single moment, he changed the possible posthumous career trajectory of two preposterously talented ballplayers — Pete Rose and “Shoeless ... this is a land of messy politics and jockeying ...

In a single moment, he changed the possible posthumous career trajectory of two preposterously talented ballplayers — Pete Rose and “Shoeless ... this is a land of messy politics and jockeying ...

FILE - This 1921 file photo shows Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, rear left, as Chicago White Sox players, Charles "Swede" Risberg, center left, and Arnold "Chick" Gandil, look on during the ...

Pete Rose, Shoeless Joe and politics: Baseball and the real world collide more often than we think The legends of pastoral fields. The detailed history and meticulous attention to continuity.