We Visit The Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum In South Carolina
By Amy Cavanaugh in Arts & Entertainment on Oct 6, 2012 7:00PM
We were in Greenville, South Carolina for a food festival recently, and in between sipping wine and watching Chicago chefs cook, we paid a visit to the Shoeless Joe Jackson Museum and Baseball Library.
The future White Sox player was born in Pickens County, SC and his family moved around the state until they settled outside Greenville. After Jackson was banned from baseball following the Black Sox scandal, he and his wife moved to Savannah, where they ran a dry cleaning business. They moved back to Greenville in 1932, and there they ran a BBQ restaurant and a liquor store.
In 2006, the Jackson home was taken apart and moved three miles across town so it would be set up right next to Fluor Field, the home of the Greenville Drive single A baseball team. In 2007, the house was turned into a museum.
The house has been decorated in the style it would have had when the Jacksons lived there, and there's a lot of White Sox memorabilia—photos, uniforms, bits and pieces of Comiskey. There's also a library of books about baseball.
When the house moved, it got a new number—356, in homage of Jackson's lifetime batting average. Here's a slideshow of photos from the house.