Shoeless Joe Jackson

HandednessBats Left · Throws Right

Listed at6 ft 1 in · 200 lb

BornJuly 16, 1887 · Pickens County, SC, USA

MLB debutAugust 25, 1908

Final gameSeptember 27, 1920

Seasons13 (1908–1920)

Philadelphia Athletics 1908–1909; Cleveland Naps 1910–1914; Chicago White Sox 1915; Cleveland Indians 1915; Chicago White Sox 1916–1920

Percentile snapshot

1920 season — qualified batters

146

72.5

649

570

79.6

105

95.1

218

97.9

98.6

95.1

RBI

121

97.9

85.2

62.7

49.3

28.9

.382

97.2

OBP

.444

95.8

SLG

.589

97.9

OPS

1.033

97.2

wRC+

171.4

94.4

OPS+

173.1

92.3

wOBA

.471

95.8

sWAR

7.3

97.2

of 143 qualified 1920 batters (min 477 PA)

Career, era-adjusted

wRC+

169.4

99.6

OPS+

170.0

99.4

sWAR

61.2

99.4

wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.

Season by season

Batting

Season	G	PA	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	BB	SO	SB	CS	BA	OBP	SLG	OPS	wRC+	OPS+	wOBA	sWAR
1908	5	23	23	0	3	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	.130	.130	.130	.261	-28.8	-16.4	.125	-0.3
1909	5	18	17	3	3	0	0	0	3	1	3	0	0	.176	.222	.176	.399	21.7	25.3	.204	-0.1
1910	20	86	75	15	29	2	5	1	11	8	8	4	0	.387	.446	.587	1.032	217.0	220.2	.488	1.5
1911	147	641	571	126	233	45	19	7	83	56	42	41	0	.408	.468	.590	1.058	186.9	192.5	.494	8.9
1912	154	653	572	121	226	44	26	3	90	54	19	35	20	.395	.458	.579	1.036	186.1	193.2	.486	8.8
1913	148	623	528	109	197	39	17	7	71	80	26	26	0	.373	.460	.551	1.011	192.6	191.7	.480	8.5
1914	122	512	453	61	153	22	13	3	53	41	34	22	15	.338	.399	.464	.862	155.7	153.8	.416	4.7
1915	128	530	461	63	142	20	14	5	81	52	23	16	20	.308	.385	.445	.830	143.4	145.1	.404	4.0
1916	155	659	592	91	202	40	21	3	78	46	25	24	14	.341	.393	.495	.888	168.0	169.1	.425	6.6
1917	146	621	538	91	162	20	17	5	75	57	25	13	0	.301	.375	.429	.805	145.1	144.7	.392	4.6
1918	17	78	65	9	23	2	2	1	20	8	1	3	0	.354	.425	.492	.917	180.2	177.2	.444	0.9
1919	139	597	516	79	181	31	14	7	96	60	10	9	0	.351	.422	.506	.928	163.0	160.7	.435	5.9
1920	146	649	570	105	218	42	20	12	121	56	14	9	12	.382	.444	.589	1.033	171.4	173.1	.471	7.3

Career totals

1,332

5,690

4,981

873

1,772

432nd-most career H

307

460th-most career 2B

168

26th-most career 3B

RBI

785

519

233

202

360th-most career SB

.3558

5th-highest career batting average

OBP

.4227

20th-highest career on-base percentage

SLG

.5174

73rd-highest career slugging percentage

OPS

.9401

38th-highest career OPS

A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.

Best games

Batting

Date	Game	AB	R	H	2B	3B	HR	RBI	TB
1912-06-30	CLE @ BAL Gameday	6	4	4	0	3	0	0	10
1913-05-11	NYY @ CLE Gameday	4	2	4	1	0	1	5	8
1916-05-31	CWS @ DET Gameday	4	2	4	2	1	0	1	8
1916-08-31	CWS @ ATH Gameday	4	2	3	0	1	1	3	8
1916-06-27	CWS @ CLE Gameday	4	3	3	2	0	1	1	8

Pitching

Date	Game	IP	H	R	ER	BB	SO	HR
1908-07-30	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-07-31	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-01	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-02	ATH @ BAL Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0
1908-08-04	ATH @ DET Gameday	0.0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.