1911NAPS
LEFT FIELD
SHOELESS JOE JACKSON1911
Shoeless Joe Jacksonleft field · 1911 naps
Ht 6'1"Wt 200Bats LThrows RBorn 1887 · Pickens County, SC
Nineteen eleven, and the baseball comes off Black Betsy like it’s late for a train. Shoeless Joe Jackson hit .408 for Cleveland — two hundred thirty-three hits, forty-five doubles, nineteen triples, forty-one steals for the road work. A guy doesn’t chase a season like that; it finds him in the gaps. The crowds came to hear the bat talk. It never shut up. The three frames ahead keep the .408 summer loud.
BLACK BETSY
The black bat talking all afternoon — Black Betsy and a .408 clip for Cleveland.
.408 CLIP
Two hundred thirty-three hits on a .408 average — the gaps found him first.
233 HITS
Two hundred thirty-three knocks, forty-five doubles, nineteen triples — volume with teeth.
Major League Batting — Year vs Life
| G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1911 | 147 | 571 | 126 | 233 | 45 | 19 | 7 | 83 | .408 | .468 | .590 |
| Life | 1,332 | 4,981 | 873 | 1,772 | 307 | 168 | 54 | 785 | .356 | .423 | .517 |
SkillScore
144.491911 · CLE
ComponentsAVG .408OBP .468SLG .590
1911 Shoeless Joe Jackson, Cleveland. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.