PLEASE NOTE: This lot includes an extremely rare barnstorming broadside (Waycross Vs. Tate) affixed to one of the scrapbook pages.  Subtitling on the broadside touts "Joe Jackson's Champions of South Georgia vs. Cy Hawkins' Champions of North Georgia."

Presented here is the only “Shoeless” Joe Jackson award piece known to have surfaced in the hobby plus four pages of original clippings with articles about his baseball career. All of these items originated from the personal scrapbooks of Shoeless Joe that surfaced in the summer of 2013. Compiled by Jackson and his wife Katie the extraordinary volumes span from his earliest days in the game to the time of his death. The balance of the scrapbooks were donated to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum in Greensville South Carolina.

One of the most remarkable artifacts found in Jackson’s personal scrapbooks is this presentational card that once accompanied the trophy presented to Jackson for winning the “Longest Throw” contest held in conjunction with the 1917 benefit All-Star game played at Fenway Park to raise funds for the family of writer Tim Murnane.  Photographs of Jackson holding the related trophy in his home (shown here) have surfaced in recent years and it is believed that the trophy is still in the possession of a Jackson relative along with Jackson’s 1917 World Series medal which he had made into a ring.

The 4.25” by 6” piece of black cardboard is hand-painted in white and reads "Presented to JOE JACKSON” with a vintage White Sox logo then continues “For the longest throw in heaving contest between all Stars and Boston Red Sox.” Then it states in smaller lettering “RECORD AS FOLLOWS / JACKSON-------296 FEET 8½ INCHES / LEWIS 384 FEET 6 IN. / WALKER 384 FEET / HOOPER 343 FEET / SPEAKER 350 FEET.” Shoeless Joe threw the baseball farther than Duffy Lewis [Tillie?] Walker Harry Hooper and Tris Speaker in this 1917 throwing contest. The award placard is taped to a period newspaper page at the top and has small paper loss on the edges.

“Murnane Day” was held in Boston on September 27 1917 in honor of the city’s baseball icon Tim Murnane who had died suddenly earlier in the year.  A fund had been established for his family and the Red Sox the American League and the Baseball Writers’ Association of America worked with local businessman and former club owner John I. Taylor to arrange a benefit exhibition matching the Red Sox with an all-star team. This was a monumentally historic All-Star game that saw Joe Jackson facing a young Babe Ruth and the World Champion Boston Red Sox trio of Hooper-Lewis-Speaker. Ironically Jackson would be banned from baseball for life two years later for allegedly throwing the 1919 World Series as part of the notorious Black Sox Scandal. The content of the four newspaper clippings are clearly readable in the images proved. The offered compilation from Jackson’s personally assembled and owned scrapbooks is among the most significant Shoeless Joe Jackson artifacts in the hobby.