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Shoeless Joe Jackson was a country boy from South Carolina who never learned to read or write much It dont take school stuff to help a fella play ball, he once said. A left handed batter and right handed thrower, Jackson stood 6 feet 1 and weighed 1. He belted sharp line drives to all corners of the ballpark, and was fast enough to lead the American League in triples three times. The Outfield Greatest Hits' title='The Outfield Greatest Hits' />The remainder of the top votegetters at each position remained the same, though close races are being waged, especially for the third outfield spot and at designated. Mike Trout 2017 player profile, game log, season stats, career stats, recent news If you play fantasy sports, get breaking news and immerse yourself in the ultimate. He never won a batting title, but his average of. Cleveland team record and a major league rookie record. Unfortunately, after Cleveland traded him to the Chicago White Sox, Jacksons career ended ignominiously because of his involvement in the infamous Black Sox Scandal of 1. He was expelled from the game in his prime, and for that reason he has never received a plaque in the Baseball Hall of Fame at Cooperstown. Joseph Jefferson Wofford Jackson was born on July 1. Pickens County, South Carolina. His father, George, was a laborer who settled in nearby Greenville soon after Joes birth and found employment at Brandon Mill, a textile factory that paid 1. Brandon Mill stood on the west side of Greenville, and there George Jackson and his wife, Martha, set up a household in one of the small, company owned houses. Joe, the oldest of eight children, began working at the mill at age 6 or 7. He never attended school, but he did learn to play baseball. Brandon Mill sponsored a team that faced squads from other mills and factories, and Joe earned a spot in the lineup when he was 1. He had his fathers unusually long arms and he excelled at throwing and hitting a ball. He soon became renowned throughout the Carolinas as an outfielder, pitcher, and home run hitter, which were known throughout the mill league as Saturday Specials. A local fan named Charlie Ferguson made bats in his spare time, and he chose a four by four beam from the north side of a particularly strong hickory tree to make one for young Joe Jackson. It measured 3. 6 inches long and weighed about 4. Ferguson darkened the bat with tobacco juice Joe called it Black Betsy and eventually took it to the major leagues. Joe played for factory teams and semipro clubs until 1. Greenville obtained a franchise in the Carolina Association, a new Class D league on the lowest level of Organized Baseball. He signed a contract with the Greenville Spinners for 7. Jackson, who was making about 4. Tom Stouch, Ill play my head off for 7. Although Jackson later learned to trace his own name, he signed his first professional contract with an X. The strong, agile 1. Carolina Association, leading the league with a. A reporter for the Greenville News tagged him with his nickname that season, when Joe played a game in his stocking feet because his new baseball shoes were not yet broken in. For the rest of his life he was known as Shoeless Joe Jackson. He didnt like his nickname and later told Atlanta reporter Furman Bisher, Ive read and heard every kind of yarn imaginable on how I got the name. I never played the outfield barefoot, and that was the only day I ever played in my stockinged feet, but it stuck with me. He also gained a wife that year, marrying 1. Katie Wynn on July 1. She had brown hair and brown eyes, and some education, since she could read and white. She remained married to Joe for 4. Joe died she wrote his letters, managed his money, and read his contracts in and out of baseball. In August 1. 90. 8 Philadelphia Athletics manager Connie Mack bought Jacksons contract for a reported 9. Joe was reluctant to go north, and Greenville manager Stouch accompanied him on the train ride to Philadelphia. Joe made his first major league appearance on August 2. However, Joe was homesick, and three days later he boarded a train back to Greenville. He returned in early September, but Philadelphia, a city of 2 million people, was frightening to the illiterate country boy. Jackson jumped the team once more before the 1. Jackson bounced between Philadelphia and the minors for the next two years. He won batting titles at Savannah in 1. New Orleans in 1. Philadelphia in a 1. Joe admired manager Connie Mack a mighty fine man who taught me more baseball than any other manager I had6 but he did not get along with his As teammates, many of whom teased him mercilessly about his illiteracy, which he tried to hide, and lack of polish. Mack reluctantly decided that Joe would never succeed in Philadelphia, and traded him to the Cleveland Naps for outfielder Bris Lord and 6,0. July 1. 91. 0. In mid September, at the conclusion of New Orleans season, Joe reported to Cleveland. Cleveland was a smaller city than Philadelphia. Many of Jacksons new teammates were either Southerners or had played in the South, so Joe fit in well. Playing in right field and center field, Joe batted. Cleveland lineup. In 1. 91. 1 he made a major leap to stardom, battering American League pitching for 2. He did not win the batting title Detroits Ty Cobb batted. Cleveland team records for hits, average, and outfield assists 3. His torrid hitting helped lift the Naps to a third place finish. Cobb paid tribute to Jackson as the season ended. Joe is a grand ball player, and one who will get better and better. There is no denying that he is a better ball player his first year in the big league than anyone ever was. Jackson swung the bat harder than most of his contemporaries, and players swore that his line drives sounded different from anyone elses. Many other players held their hands apart on the bat and punched at the ball, but Joe put his hands together near the bottom of the handle and took a full swing. I used to draw a line three inches from the plate every time I came to bat, Jackson said many years later. I drew a right angle line at the end of it, right next to the catcher, and put my left foot on it exactly three inches from home plate. He stood in the box, feet close together, then took one long step into the pitch and ripped at it with his left handed swing. I copied my swing after Joe Jacksons, Babe Ruth told Grantland Rice in 1. Road Rash Game For Psp. His is the perfectest. Though the Naps fell from third place to fifth in 1. Jackson batted. 3. He also set a new American League record with 2. Sam Crawford in 1. However, Joe once again finished second in the batting race to Cobb, who batted. Tigers. What a hell of a league this is, Jackson wailed to a reporter. I hit. 3. 87,. 4. I aint won nothing yet1. Jackson displayed his power on June 4, 1. Yankees Russ Ford the hit bounced off the roof of the right field grandstand at the Polo Grounds and into the street beyond. The newspapers claimed that the blast traveled more than 5. Jacksons. 3. 73 average that year trailed Cobb once again, but he led the league in hits 1. Chalmers Award balloting. His total of walks also increased sharply, from 5. Joe turned down offers from the new Federal League in early 1. Cleveland pitchers joined the new circuit and left the Naps shorthanded on the mound. Federal League raids and the sudden decline of Nap Lajoie caused the Naps to drop from contention, and injuries to Jackson and shortstop Ray Chapman doomed them to last place for the first time in their history. Forced by a broken leg to miss 3. Joe saw his average dip to. Controversy swirled around Jackson during the 1. He had spent the winter months headlining a vaudeville show that drew curious crowds throughout the South.