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Shoeless Joe Jackson by Mark Chiarello

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Title:	Shoeless Joe Jackson by Mark Chiarello
Artist:	Mark Chiarello (All)
Media Type:	Pen and Ink
Art Type:	Illustration
For Sale Status:	NFS
Views:	203
Likes on CAF:	3 4
Comments:	3
Added to Site:	12/22/2023
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The great Ted Williams once remarked: “When I was younger, the Red Sox used to stop sometimes in Greenville, South Carolina – that’s Joe Jackson’s home. And he was still alive. Oh, how I wish I had known that and could have stopped in to talk hitting with that man.”

Connie Mack signed him with the Philadelphia Athletics in August of 1908. In 1910, Mack traded him to Cleveland. The following year, in his first full season in the majors, Joe batted .408, the highest batting average ever recorded by a rookie.

In August of 1915, Joe was traded again, this time to the Chicago White Sox for $31,500 cash and three players. The White Sox were a talented team, winning the World Series in 1917 and the American League pennant in 1919. They were the heavy favorites to beat Cincinnati in the 1919 World Series, but the Reds ultimately won the series.

In response to suspicions that the White Sox were under the influence of sports bookies, Joe Jackson and seven other White Sox players, were accused of conspiring to throw the 1919 World Series.

The headline, “WHITE SOX INDICTED!” stunned baseball fans. At the trial in 1921, however, it took only two hours for a Chicago jury to render a verdict of not guilty on all counts. Despite acquittal in a court of law, and without conducting an investigation, baseball’s newly appointed baseball commissioner, Kenesaw Mountain Landis, banned Jackson and seven other White Sox from playing professional baseball, sending a no-tolerance message regarding gambling in baseball.

Whether Joe Jackson really helped fix the 1919 World Series has remained a point of dispute for over a century. Joe played nearly flawless baseball. He hit .375 for the series, the highest on either team. He had twelve hits (a World Series record which stood for nearly 50 years before it was broken). He collected six RBIs and accounted for 11 of the 20 White Sox runs. He didn’t commit a single error in the field in the eight games, and he threw out five Reds baserunners from the outfield-and he hit the only home run in the series. For either team.

-Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library

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John C
Member Since 2014

1 - Posted on 12/22/2023

I wonder what he would command in today's market. Prob a tad higher than 31.5k.

Marcus Wai
Member Since 2005

1 - Posted on 12/23/2023

If Chiarello drew it, art will come.

Jeremiah Avery
Member Since 2007

1 - Posted on 12/30/2023

A wonderful piece of art depicting an interesting historical figure. Babe Ruth said that Joe's hitting style was an influence on him. Ty Cobb told a sad story about how he stopped at a grocery store - decades after the scandal - and he saw the clerk looked like Joe Jackson, but the clerk looked away when Ty made eye contact with him. When Ty brought his groceries up to the counter, Joe treated him like any other customer, as if they were strangers. Ty asked him "Do you know me, Joe?" Jackson replied "Yeah, Ty. I know you, but most people don't want to know me."

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