Shoe shunners
Tuesday, June 17, 2003


• John Chapman, a nurseryman who supplied apple-tree stock to 19th-century pioneers in the Midwestern frontier — and came to be know as Johnny Appleseed

• Abraham Lincoln, who as a child toughened his bare feet ``in the gravel of green streams,'' Carl Sandburg writes

• Confederate soldiers, who nonetheless made long, forced marches

• Joe Jackson, the baseball player who picked up the nickname ``Shoeless Joe'' when he played a minor-league game in his stockings because he had blisters on his feet from new spikes — before his career was ruined in the 1919 ``Black Sox'' gambling scandal

• The scantily clad Daisy Mae Yokum, a central fiture in the long-running Al Capp comic Li'l Abner

• Bigfoot

Sources: www.shoelessjoejackson.com, Encyclopaedia Brittanica Online



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