Bill Jackman (baseball)

Bill Jackman
Pitcher
Born: (1897-10-07)October 7, 1897
Carta Valley, Texas, U.S.
Died: September 9, 1972(1972-09-09) (aged 74)
Marion, Massachusetts, U.S.
Batted: Right
Threw: Right
Negro league baseball debut
1925, for the New York Lincoln Giants
Last appearance
1942, for the Brooklyn Royal Giants
Stats at Baseball Reference 
Teams

William "Cannonball" Jackman (October 7, 1897 – September 9, 1972) was an American professional baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. He played from 1925 to 1942 with several teams,[1] including a spot on the otherwise all-white East Douglas team in Massachusetts's amateur Blackstone Valley League in 1929, a squad which also featured 18-year-old newcomer Hank Greenberg.[2][3]

Jackman received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever.[4]

References

  1. ↑ Riley, James A. (1994). The Biographical Encyclopedia of the Negro Baseball Leagues. New York: Carroll & Graf. ISBN 0-7867-0959-6.
  2. ↑ Rosengren, John (2013). Hank Greenberg: The Hero of Heroes. New York: New American Library. p. 217. ISBN 978-0-451-23576-3.
  3. ↑ Dick Thompson (January 1, 2007). "Cannonball Bill Jackman: baseball's great unknown". Society For American Baseball Research. Retrieved September 25, 2019.
  4. ↑ "1952 Pittsburgh Courier Poll of Greatest Black Players"
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