Original cabinet photograph picturing the 1908 Greenville Spinners (Greenville, South Carolina) featuring 20-year old outfielder Joe Jackson (1887-1951) who would go on to make his Major League debut later that season with the Philadelphia Athletics. Jackson would acquire his nickname "Shoeless" while a member of the Spinners that season, famously removing painful spikes between games of a doubleheader and playing "shoeless" for the second game. The photograph pictures twelve members of the team as well as a mascot and is presented on a cardboard mount which has been hand-lettered on the top border Grenville (sic) S.C. Base Ball Club. Carolina Association. 1908 with player identifications and positions on the lower border.
12 x 14 in.