1913 Cleveland Naps Pocket Schedule
1913 Cleveland Naps pocket schedule — a fragile, throwaway advertising schedule from Jackson's Cleveland years, with home dates and real-estate copy on the reverse. Everyday ballpark paper almost nobody kept; survivors are scarce Cleveland ephemera from the seasons that made him a star.
- Issue
- 1913 Cleveland Naps Pocket Schedule
- Year
- 1913
- Subject
- "Shoeless" Joe Jackson
- Grade
- Raw (ungraded)
1913 Cleveland Naps Pocket Schedule
Pocket schedules were printed by the thousands, handed out by local businesses, carried in wallets, and thrown away at season's end. A 1913 Naps schedule comes from the heart of Jackson's Cleveland years (1910–1915), when he was the club's young star.
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"Shoeless" Joe Jackson
A South Carolina mill-town hitter with almost no schooling, Jackson became one of the purest hitters the game has ever seen: a .408 average in his first full season with Cleveland in 1911 and a .356 career mark, among the highest ever. Babe Ruth later said he had copied Jackson's style because he thought Jackson the greatest natural hitter he had ever seen — a widely repeated attribution, even as historians still argue how literally Ruth meant it. Jackson hit .375 and played errorless ball in the 1919 World Series, yet admitted to a grand jury in 1920 that he had taken gamblers' money. Acquitted by a Chicago jury in 1921, he was banned for life by Commissioner Landis anyway. The unresolved question of how guilty he really was is the reason this collection exists.
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