Baseball legend Shoeless Joe Jackson passed away on December 5, 1951, at the age of 64. Born in Greenville, South Carolina, in 1888, he developed a love of baseball at a young age and quickly gained a reputation as a skilled ballplayer. After a successful stint with the minor league Greenville Spinners, he was recruited by the Philadelphia Athletics in 1908. In his first season with the Athletics, he batted an impressive .300 and went on to improve his batting average in every subsequent season before being sold to the Cleveland Naps in 1910. He eventually achieved the highest batting average of his career while playing for the Naps and led them to a World Series Championship in 1920. At the start of the 1921 season, he was traded to the Chicago White Sox and spent the next 9 years with the team, leading them to the World Series title in 1917 and hitting the 3,000-hit mark. Jackson was forced out of baseball in 1921 after being implicated in the Black Sox scandal. However, he was acquitted of any wrongdoings, though he never returned to baseball. His lifetime batting average of .356 stands as one of the highest in Major League Baseball history. At the time of his death, Shoeless Joe Jackson was survived by his wife, Katherine, and stepdaughter, Jane. He will be remembered by fans around the world for his incredible hitting ability and his dedication to the sport of baseball.