An original portrait of baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson that was taken around the time of the 1919 “Black Sox” World Series has emerged.
One of the few pieces of memorabilia left from the 1919 season, the portrait is currentlyJoseph Jefferson Jackson, known to most as Shoeless Joe, is one of the most legendary figures in Major League Baseball history. He got the name “shoeless” from a time in his early career where he once removed his cleats before taking his at-bat because they were causing him too much pain. A fan heckled him as a “shoeless sun of a gun” and the name stuck.
Before the series, Jackson allegedly refused to throw the games twice before finally agreeing to take $5,000 to stay silent. But ahead of Game 1, the superstar outfielder told Sox owner Charles Comiskey about the bribe and asked to be benched. Comiskey refused, and Jackson hit .375 with a home run and six RBI across eight games in the unusual best-of-nine series.
But due to his association with that scandal, Jackson and seven other players were banned from playing baseball following the 1920 season and he has been excluded from the Baseball Hall of Fame despite his impressive career.
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