Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library
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Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library is a museum in South Carolina, at a modelled elevation of 302 m. Caesars Head Mountain stands 980 m to the northwest, 22 miles off. The nearest named place is Shoeless Joe Jackson Statue, a artwork 0.1 miles away. Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway passes 17 miles off.
The story
The "Shoeless" Joe Jackson Museum and Library was first opened to the public on June 21, 2008. Located across from Fluor Field in Greenville, South Carolina, the five-room brick house where Shoeless Joe Jackson lived and died contains a few of his personal belongings and over 2,000 baseball-related books. In 2015, the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum formally petitioned Commissioner of Baseball Rob Manfred for Jackson's reinstatement to baseball, because Jackson had "more than served his sentence" in the 95 years since his banishment by Kenesaw Landis. Manfred denied the request after an official review. "The results of this work demonstrate to me that it is not possible now, over 95 years since those events took place and were considered by Commissioner Landis, to be certain enough of the truth to overrule Commissioner Landis' determinations," he wrote. The museum allows members of the public to visit on Saturdays and conducts private tours during the week. While in Greenville, many visitors to the museum also visit "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's grave located in Woodlawn Memorial Park near the Bob Jones University campus. When visiting the grave, members of the public leave baseball-related equipment such as baseballs, gloves, and cleats. In March 2022, the Museum opened a community book box at the site of the former Bolton Street Park in Savannah, Georgia by Fairmount Baptist Church. Shoeless Joe Jackson had played for the 1909 Savannah Indians and won the league batting title playing his games at Bolton Street Park.
From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dates from 2008-06-21.
Wikidata Q15961572, referenced by the OpenStreetMap record.
What the record says
- Height
- 11.8 m
What to expect
How to reach it
- 16.9 mi off the Cherokee Foothills Scenic Highway, National
- 26.6 mi off the Pacolet River Byway
- 28.1 mi off the Historic Flat Rock Scenic Byway
Overlooks nearby
- Chandler Rock Overlook · 20 mi
- Grant Meadow Overlook · 21 mi
- Glassy Mountain Overlook · 29 mi
Named places within 25 miles
- Shoeless Joe Jackson Statue: 0.1 mi
- Regenesis: 0.2 mi
- Dr. Virginia Uldrick: 0.3 mi
- Rose Crystal Tower: 0.3 mi
- "Nexus of Light" sculpture: 0.3 mi
- Arboretum Falls: 0.3 mi
- Lower Reedy River Falls: 0.5 mi
- Reedy River Falls: 0.5 mi
- Rock Quarry Falls: 0.9 mi
- Conestee Falls: 5.9 mi
- Logan Park: 0.4 mi
- Falls Park: 0.5 mi
- Cancer Survivors Park: 0.6 mi
- Sue Simpson Garden Park: 0.6 mi
- Henry Memorial Park: 0.7 mi
- Veteran's Memorial: 0.4 mi
- Richard W. "Dick" Riley: 0.6 mi
- Major Rudolf Anderson, Jr. Memorial: 0.8 mi
- Buncombe Road Historical Plaque: 0.9 mi
- Franklin Delano Roosevelt Memorial: 1.0 mi
- Piney Mountain: 3.7 mi
- Butler Hill: 4.0 mi
- Roper Mountain: 5.7 mi
- Paris Mountain: 6.9 mi
- Arial Mountain: 12.3 mi
- Pedrick's Garden: 0.3 mi
- Harriet's Garden: 0.3 mi
- Sullivan Street Farm: 0.4 mi
- The Shaw Garden: 0.7 mi
- Pollinator Garden: 0.7 mi
- The Children's Museum of the Upstate: 1.1 mi
- Sigal Music Museum: 1.1 mi
- The Greenville County Museum of Art: 1.1 mi
- Upcountry History Museum: 1.1 mi
- American Legion War Museum: 1.3 mi
- Greenville Glides: 1.0 mi
- Kilgore-Lewis House: 1.3 mi
- Steamer Car: 4.0 mi
- Roper Mountain Science Center: 5.6 mi
- Old Southern 1046 rail car: 5.9 mi
- Picnic Tables Area: 2.6 mi
- Pavilion 2: 3.1 mi
- Pavilion 1: 3.1 mi
- Shelter: 4.5 mi
- Commons Building Outdoor seating area: 6.3 mi
- Nalley Brown Nature Park: 12.2 mi
- South Tyger River Blueways Tract: 16.0 mi
- Poinsett Bridge Heritage Preserve: 19.9 mi
- Green Mountain Preserve: 20.3 mi
- Glassy Rock: 20.9 mi
- Cleveland Cliff: 22.3 mi
- Raven Cliff: 22.6 mi
- El Lieutenant: 23.1 mi
- Chick Springs: 9.1 mi
- Greythorne Retention Pond: 10.1 mi
- Mineral Spring: 16.0 mi
Summits around it
The highest named summits within 22.1 miles of Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.
| Summit | Bearing | Elevation | Distance |
|---|---|---|---|
| Caesars Head Mountain | NW 326° | 980 m | 22.1 mi |
| Table Rock | NW 311° | 953 m | 22.1 mi |
| Bryant Mountain | N 9° | 921 m | 21.2 mi |
| Glassy Mountain | NNE 11° | 848 m | 20.9 mi |
| The Stool | NW 312° | 797 m | 21.7 mi |
| Little Pinnacle Mountain | NNW 333° | 792 m | 21.5 mi |
| Campbell Mountain | NNW 327° | 774 m | 20.8 mi |
| Old Indian Mountain | N 4° | 697 m | 20.6 mi |
When to go
Light through the year
| Date | Sunrise | Golden hour | Sunset |
|---|---|---|---|
| March equinox | 07:34 | 19:08 | 19:42 |
| June solstice | 06:17 | 20:10 | 20:47 |
| September equinox | 07:18 | 18:55 | 19:28 |
| December solstice | 07:34 | 16:44 | 17:23 |
Local time (America/New_York).
Climate normals
Months averaging 50–80 °F: Mar–Nov.
| Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Avg °F | 41 | 44 | 51 | 60 | 67 | 74 | 78 | 77 | 71 | 60 | 50 | 43 |
| Precip in | 4.4 | 3.5 | 4.3 | 4.2 | 3.8 | 4.4 | 4.6 | 4.4 | 4.0 | 3.9 | 4.0 | 5.1 |
1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Greenville, 3 mi away.
Where this comes from
Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.
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