Fifty of them frozen died in one night.Ann: Just because there were no newspapers?Mark: Really.Later that day, Harry rides an electric bus to a pay phone on a street corner.Clutching a blue vinyl pouch, he places a call and asks for Extension 746, "the Director""s office." He tells the male secretary: "I have the material and I""m calling for an appointment." Lying, Harry rejects the idea of a callback: "I""m at a pay phone and I don""t have a home telephone.Peter angrily counter-argued that his father didn""t follow the responsibilities of fatherhood, and then stormed out into the night (Uncle Ben followed after him)...(He glances down at his shoulder wound.) - until a while ago, that is.Yes, I killed him.I killed him for money and for a woman.I didn""t get the money and I didn""t get the woman.Pretty, isn""t it?Intermittently throughout the film that is told from a fatalistic point of view, Neff changes his voice, alternating subtly from a confession to a rhythmic, flowing narration, as he continues o link together the various scenes in the flashback.He said his glove was the place where triples go to die....Could he hit? Lifetime average.356, third highest in history...When he was still in the minors, he bought a new pair of spikes that hurt his feet.ln about he sixth inning, he took them off and played the rest of the game just in his socks.The other players kidded him, called him ""Shoeless Joe"" and the name stuck....Then in 1919, his team, the Chicago White Sox, theythrewthe World Series....lt means they lost it on purpose.Gamblers paid hem to.Except Shoeless Joe.Now, he did take their money, but nobody could ever prove that he did a single thing to lose those games.