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Telling the story of Jacksonville baseball
It was a project I had originally tasked myself for after the 2020 baseball season.
As a huge baseball fan, in particular of the game’s rich history, one of the most incredible things about working for the Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp is constantly realizing how much happened right here in Northeast Florida — something as a non-native that I had no idea of until I started to slightly dig into said history for random projects throughout the year.
In total, 11 Hall of Famers either played or managed in Jacksonville at some point during their careers (Aaron, Seaver, Johnson, Ryan, Niekro, Wilhem, López, Marquard, Uecker, Walker & Edgar Martinez). That’s an astounding number for any minor league club.
In addition to these fun projects of researching baseball (I really do have an awesome job), it seemed that whenever I read anything about the sport, Jacksonville would magically pop up. In The Kid, Ben Bradlee Jr.’s excellent biography of Boston Red Sox legend Ted Williams, I learned that The Splendid Splinter actually trained as a U.S. Marine fighter pilot in Jacksonville. Williams learned to fly the F4U Corsair and set a base gunnery record for student pilots in the process. He also survived a serious plane crash in Jacksonville in an unpublicized landing carrier incident. In a nugget of far more levity, Williams was also “virtually forced” onto the Jacksonville base’s baseball team, on which he played with future Hall of Fame Detroit Tigers second baseman Charlie Gehringer.
Basically, in much shorter terms, there is just so much incredible baseball history in our city. Unfortunately, it took a pandemic to allow myself the time to fully dig into the wealth of stories Jacksonville baseball offers. But while we social distance and wait for Opening Day 2020 and the beginning of the fourth season of the Jumbo Shrimp, I hope you’ll enjoy some looks in future posts about the magnificent wealth Jacksonville baseball offers. It has been a pleasure to learn about from a personal perspective, and I hope it will be just as fun to convey to you.
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