"Shoeless" Joe Jackson - Greenville, SC
N 34° 50.660 W 082° 24.246
17S E 371626 N 3856679
"Shoeless" Joe Jackson, Greenville, SC
Waymark Code: WMD6R3
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 11/27/2011
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The "Shoeless Joe Jackson" statue is a life-size bronze mounted on a bronze base. The base is mounted in a 24" high circle of bricks. Jackson is depicted wearing a basebal uniform and holding a bat while watching a ball he has just hit.
Joe Jackson, a native of Greenvile, SC, began his professional baseball career in 1908 with the Philadelphia Athletics. For his first two years Jackson was up and down between the minor and the major leagues, playing only ten games with the Athletics. He received his nickname "Shoeless," after playing a minor league game in his stockings because a new pair of spikes had given him blisters on his feet the previous day.
In August of 1915 Jackson was traded to the Chicago White Sox. In 1917 Jackson and the White Sox won the World Series. During the series Jackson batted .307 and led the White Sox to victory over the New York Giants.
In 1919, Jackson and the White Sox found themselves back in the running for another World Series ring. Jackson batted .351 during the regular season and .375 with perfect fielding in the World Series. The heavily favored Sox found themselves in a losing battle against the Cincinnati Reds. During the next year while batting .385 and leading the American league in triples Jackson was suspended after allegations that 8 members of the White Sox threw the previous World Series. In 1921 A Chicago jury acquitted Jackson of helping to fix the 1919 World Series, but Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of Baseball went against the ruling and banned all eight players including Joe Jackson from baseball for life.
The Jackson statue is located in a plaza on South Main Street.
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