Actor Ray Liotta, who died in his sleep Thursday at age 67, had a ready response for critics of his right-handed portrayal of Shoeless Joe Jackson in “Field of Dreams.”
Liotta was hopeless as a left-handed hitter, so the filmmakers allowed him some poetic license in the batting scene.
As for the inaccuracy, he once told the American Film Institute, “Well, (Shoeless Joe) didn’t come down from heaven either, so …”
