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How Has Baseball Changed In Shoeless Joe's Day?
In today’s water cooler report about the novel Shoeless Joe, a lot of interesting questions were asked. One of the questions that was asked was how has baseball changed since Shoeless Joe’s day? Do you like the changes? As the discussion started, Jay said “there are more drugs in baseball now days than in Shoeless Joe’s time.” Everyone agreed with Jay. Dhiren said that the player’s salary is a lot more, “like in the millions”. Pravena said that the baseball games were in the night. However, I disagree of that statement because in the book it clearly states that there were lights for the night games. Another question that was raised about in out discussion which asked should Ray have told his father that he was his son? Would you want to

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