As the Major League Baseball playoffs begin this week to determine who will be World Series champion, WYFF, the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate in Greenville, S.C., examines the life of one of its famous World Series players, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson. Tonight at 7:30 on WYFF, a half-hour episode of its George Foster Peabody Award-winning program, Chronicle, […]
As the Major League Baseball playoffs begin this week to determine who will be World Series champion, WYFF, the Hearst-owned NBC affiliate in Greenville, S.C., examines the life of one of its famous World Series players, “Shoeless” Joe Jackson.
Tonight at 7:30 on WYFF, a half-hour episode of its George Foster Peabody Award-winning program, Chronicle, will take an in-depth look at Jackson’s life and career, including accusations that he helped throw the 1919 World Series between his Chicago White Sox and the Cincinnati Reds.
Chronicle is hosted by WYFF anchor Jane Robelot who used to anchor for CBS This Morning.
“Chronicle is a single-topic documentary which airs 2-3 times a year,” says Lee Brown, WYFF’s assistant news director and senior executive producer of Chronicle.
“We have done a variety of topics that we feel are of high interest from a comprehensive look at domestic violence to stories about the 469-mile Blue Ridge Parkway.”
Chronicle was honored with the George Foster Peabody Award in 2010 for its story about the process of organ donations from donor families to recipients.
Shoeless Joe Jackson was one of the eight men thrown out of baseball, made famous by the 1963 book, 8 Men Out, which was made into an outstanding movie of the same title by independent movie-maker John Sayles in 1988.
Although he was accused of helping throw the series, Jackson proclaimed his innocence until the day he died in 1951. Jackson batted .375 and had no errors in the series.
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