Americus team, 1923 Baseball--Georgia--Americus Baseball teams--Georgia--Americus Minor league baseball--Georgia--Americus Athletes--Georgia--Americus Baseball players--Georgia--Americus Men--Georgia--Americus Jackson, Joe, 1888-1951 Photograph of the Americus, Georgia minor league baseball team. The players pose in a single-file line; they stand on a baseball field. In July of 1923 "Shoeless" Joe Jackson (pictured near the center of the line, not wearing shoes) signed on with the Americus team of the South Georgia League, after being implicated in the Chicago White Sox scandal of 1919. New Georgia Encyclopedia Black-and-white photographs http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Multimedia.jsp?id=m-1785 http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-838 Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia 1923 Americus (Ga.) Sumter County (Ga.)