Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum

The Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library
Established June 21, 2008 (2008-06-21)
Location 356 Field Street, Greenville, South Carolina
Coordinates 34°50′29″N 82°24′26″W / 34.8415°N 82.407297°W / 34.8415; -82.407297Coordinates: 34°50′29″N 82°24′26″W / 34.8415°N 82.407297°W / 34.8415; -82.407297
Website www.shoelessjoejackson.org/index.php

The "Shoeless" Joe Jackson Museum and Library was first opened to the public on June 21, 2008.[1] Located across from Fluor Field in Greenville, South Carolina, the brick house in which Shoeless Joe Jackson lived and died in contains many of his personal belongings and over 2,000 books related to baseball.[2]

In 2015, the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum formally petitioned Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred for Jackson's reinstatement to baseball, on grounds that Jackson had "more than served his sentence" in the 95 years since his banishment by Kenesaw Landis. Manfred denied the request after an official review. "The results of this work demonstrate to me that it is not possible now, over 95 years since those events took place and were considered by Commissioner Landis, to be certain enough of the truth to overrule Commissioner Landis' determinations," he wrote.[3]

References

  1. ↑ "Museum Campaigns for Shoeless Joe Jackson". Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  2. ↑ "The Midlands and Upstate Sights". Retrieved December 19, 2013.
  3. ↑ "MLB won't reinstate Shoeless Joe Jackson". ESPN. September 1, 2015.
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