Joseph "Shoeless Joe" Jackson
Chronology
1888 | Born July 16 in Pickens County, South Carolina to George and Martha Jackson |
1893 | Moves to Brandon Mill, South Carolina, near Greenville |
1894 | Begins working in a textile mill at age six |
1901 | Becomes the pitcher for the Brandon Mill team |
1906 | Begins semipro career with Greenville Near Leaguers |
1908 | Marries Katherine Wynn |
1908 | Begins pro career with the Greenville Spinners in the Carolina Association |
1908 | Signed by the Philadelphia Athletics |
1909 | Traded to Cleveland Indians |
1915 | Traded to Chicago White Sox |
1918 | Accepts draft-exempt employment in a shipbuilding plant |
1919 | White Sox lose World Series to Cincinnati |
1920 | Charged with throwing 1919 World Series with seven other White Sox players and suspended |
1921 | Acquitted by Chicago jury but banned from baseball by Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of baseball |
1922 | Moves to Savannah, Georgia and opens dry cleaning business |
1922 | Plays baseball with a team in Bastrop, Louisiana |
1923 | Leaves the Bastrop team to play for the Americus, Georgia team, which wins the Georgia Little League Series in six games. |
1924 | Manages the Waycross team for two seasons, winning the Georgia State Championship in 1924 |
1929 | Returns to Greenville when his mother becomes ill, then takes her to Savannah, Georgia, where she is cared for by his wife and sister Lula |
1932 | Returns to Greenville where he plays most of the season with the Greenville Spinners and finishes with a semipro team in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
1933 | Returns to Greenville with Katie to open first a barbecue restaurant then Joe Jackson's Liquor Store |
1933 | Plays ball for Poe Mills in Greenville |
1934 | Plays and manages the Winnsboro Mill Royal Cords |
1937 | Manages the Woodside Mill team |
1951 | Suffers a heart attack and dies at home on December 5 |
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