ray liotta played shoeless joe in field of dreams.
who played shoeless joe in field of dreams?
ray liotta
shoeless joe has been depicted in a few films in the late 20th century. "eight men out", a film directed by john sayles, based on the eliot asinof book of the same name, details the black sox scandal in general and has d. b. sweeney portraying jackson.





























the phil alden robinson film "field of dreams", based on "shoeless joe" by w. p. kinsella, stars ray liotta as jackson. kevin costner plays an iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice instructing him to build a baseball field on his farm so shoeless joe can play baseball again.





























section::::legacy.
shoeless joe jackson
after the game, shoeless joe invites mann to enter the corn; he accepts and disappears into it. ray is angry at not being invited, but shoeless joe rebukes him: if he really wants a reward for having sacrificed so much, then he should stay on the field. shoeless joe then glances towards a player at home plate, saying, "if you build it, "he" will come." the player removes his catcher's mask to reveal he is ray's father as a young man. shocked, ray realizes that, "ease his pain," referred to his father, and believes that shoeless joe was the voice all along; however, joe implies that, "ease his pain" was about ray himself. joe then disappears into the cornfield.
field of dreams