Lacking a Donna, other illiterates in sports didn't do as well. Two come to mind: When White Sox leftfielder Joseph Jefferson Jackson was suspected of being in on the plot to throw the 1919 World Series, he was inveigled to sign a document he couldn't read, because he couldn't read. Shoeless Joe had inadvertently given up his right to appeal. Football's Dexter Manley, a defensive end in the 1980s, led a tortured life. His shame at being placed in the “dummy class” manifested as violence, such as when he stuck a sharpened pencil into another student's neck, and one incident of arson. Granted social promotions at Yates High School in Houston and at Oklahoma State, he moved on to the NFL, where he'd bring the Wall Street Journal into the locker room and pretend to study it. The playbook held no meaning; a coach told him he had “the IQ of a grapefruit.” Asked to read in Sunday school, he'd say he'd forgotten his glasses. After four positive tests for banned drugs, he was out of the league.