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1908 Photo Part of Shoeless Joe Trove

March 26, 2009 By Rich Mueller

A century-old photo of minor leaguer Joe Jackson is one of three Shoeless items heading to the auction block.

1908 Greenville Spinners photo A rare 1908 Greenville Spinners team cabinet photograph featuring the then 19-year-old Joe Jackson will be up for bid next month when Heritage Auctions holds a sale at its Dallas, TX headquarters.

Jackson is part of the team photograph capturing his first professional team, which played in his South Carolina hometown. The piece comes to Heritage directly from the family of one of Jackson’s teammates, who were likely the only recipients of the photo when it was created. Upon a shabby ball field more dirt than grass, the teenaged Jackson stands with 11 of his Greenville teammates. The young mascot sits at his right foot. The pre-sale estimate for the photo is over $20,000.

“This is the first ever to reach the hobby’s auction block,” said Auction Director Chris Ivy, “and the first we’ve ever encountered, period.”

It is worthy to note that it was during a 1908 doubleheader pitting the Spinners against the Anderson Electricians that Jackson would earn his famous nickname. After suffering through the first game in a pair of new spikes that raised blisters on his skin, Jackson removed them for the second. In the seventh inning he laced a long line drive, sliding into third with a triple. As the dust cloud settled, an opposing fan shouted to him, "You shoeless son-of-a-gun!"

Jackson would not finish the season in Greenville, heeding Hall of Fame manager Connie Mack’s call to join the Athletics in Philadelphia, where he would struggle to adapt to a life entirely different from the one he had known on the dirt farms and ball fields of the South. Here we see Shoeless Joe as the ultimate "diamond in the rough," a baseball prodigy just weeks from setting out upon a journey with all the trappings of a Shakespearean tragedy.

Heritage will also offer two other high end Jackson items: A 1914 Boston Garter Joe Jackson Boston Garter card card, representing one of the rarest and most sought-after baseball cards in all of collecting and a circa 1919 signed Joe Jackson baseball, representing one of the most sought after autographs in the hobby.

The 1914 Boston Garter Joe Jackson card is the key entry in the extremely rare 12-card Boston Garter window display series from 1914. It is one of only two examples known with a numerical grade. It is estimated at $80,000+.

Joe Jackson, Buck Weaver autographed baseball A 1919 era vintage signed baseball featuring autographs of Jackson and teammate Buck Weaver is also in the auction. It presents the much sought-after autographs of two of hobby’s greatest names forever linked by the greatest scandal in baseball history, and the true possibility that each was actually innocent. Jackson and Weaver formed one quarter of the notorious "Eight Men Out" that conspired to deliver a 1919 World Series victory to gamblers supporting the Cincinnati Reds at the expense of their own Chicago White Sox club. Both the famous center fielder and his teammate at third base, however, actually improved upon their regular season batting averages during the tainted Fall Classic, while not committing a single fielding error between them.

The first and third of the banished Black Sox to pass away, respectively, Jackson and Weaver are likewise the most inaccessible autographs of the group. Jackson’s functional illiteracy, born of an early childhood spent in a South Carolina textile mill rather than in a schoolroom, exacerbates perhaps the most challenging problem in the hobby for serious autograph collectors, with just a small handful of authentic signatures known to exist. This ball is estimated at $75,000+.

“If you know your baseball history then this is a truly exciting grouping,” said Ivy. Shoeless Joe Jackson is one of the greatest names to ever play America’s beautiful game. A grouping of this magnitude is hard to come by.”


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