Bill Jackman Explained

Bill Jackman
Position:	Pitcher
Birth Date:	October 7, 1897
Birth Place:	Carta Valley, Texas, U.S.
Death Place:	Marion, Massachusetts, U.S.
Bats:	Right
Throws:	Right
Debutleague:	Negro league baseball
Debutyear:	1925
Debutteam:	New York Lincoln Giants
Finalyear:	1942
Finalteam:	Brooklyn Royal Giants
Teams:	New York Lincoln Giants (1925) Philadelphia Giants (1925–1927) Philadelphia Quaker City Giants (1928) Philadelphia Tigers (1928) Brooklyn/Newark Eagles (1935–1936) Boston Royal Giants (1942)

William "Cannonball" Jackman (October 7, 1897 – September 9, 1972) was an American 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]}

At age 55, Jackman received votes listing him on the 1952 Pittsburgh Courier player-voted poll of the Negro leagues' best players ever.^[4]

External links

and Baseball-Reference Black Baseball stats and Seamheads

• Negro League Baseball Players Association

Notes and References

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