1916WHITE SOX
LEFT FIELD
SHOELESS JOE JACKSON1916
Shoeless Joe Jacksonleft field · 1916 white sox
Ht 6'1"Wt 200Bats LThrows RBorn 1887 · Pickens County, SC
Nineteen sixteen put Shoeless Joe Jackson in White Sox flannel and left the counting ledger open. He hit .341 with two hundred two hits, forty doubles, twenty-one triples, and seventy-eight ribbies — a full summer of line drives for Chicago. New laundry, same Black Betsy conversation. The three frames ahead keep the Sox volume on the wood.
SOX FLANNEL
New White Sox laundry, same left-handed lumber — Chicago got the line drives.
202 HITS
Two hundred two hits, forty doubles, twenty-one triples — a full counting summer.
LINE-DRIVE JOE
Laser liners through the infield — Black Betsy still had somewhere to be.
Major League Batting — Year vs Life
| G | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | AVG | OBP | SLG | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1916 | 155 | 592 | 91 | 202 | 40 | 21 | 3 | 78 | .341 | .393 | .495 |
| Life | 1,332 | 4,981 | 873 | 1,772 | 307 | 168 | 54 | 785 | .356 | .423 | .517 |
SkillScore
150.841916 · CHA
ComponentsAVG .341OBP .393SLG .495
1919 Shoeless Joe Jackson batting photo. Wikimedia Commons. Public domain.