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1916 Baseball Magazine w/Joe Jackson on Front and Back Covers
Presented is the most desirable of all the Baseball Magazines, the March 1916 copy that features an image of Joe Jackson on both the front and back covers. In 1916, Jackson, after playing with the Philadelphia Athletics and Cleveland, was in his first full season with the Chicago White Sox. The outfielder would hit .341 that season and lead the American League in triples (21) and total bases (293). Later, in 1920, Jackson was accused of being one of the players who conspired to fix the 1919 World Series against the Cincinnati Reds. Jackson was often considered as a rival with Ty Cobb as the best player of his time, and Jackson - who hit .356 lifetime, would have been a sure Hall of Famer, except he was banned from baseball after the 1920 season for his connection with gamblers and the Series fix. The Baseball Magazine is 7x10" and has 128 pages. The front cover depicts Jackson in his left-handed stance. The rear cover shows a similar photo, except that Jackson is holding a Remington gun over his left shoulder and the text reads "Joe Jackson, Ty Cobb's only rival. They both shoot Remingtons." The feature story on Jackson focuses on how much natural ability Jackson had, compared to Cobb's natural ability, plus his baseball smarts. This feature story runs 15 pages, with 14 photos. The magazine exhibits some natural signs of aging for a magazine over a hundred years old, such as some tiny, partial tears along a few edges and some slight darkening. Overall, the condition of the magazine is around Very Good, with a fully intact spine. Contributing to the value of this magazine is the irony that in a little over two years, Jackson and the Chicago White Sox would become involved in the biggest scandal in baseball history, the Chicago "Black Sox" of 1919, and this interesting magazine verbal portrait of Jackson as an eccentric hero now seems eerily poignant.
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