This Day In Baseball - The Daily Rewind

On July 16, 1853 - The New York Clipper publishes what isbelieved to be the first tabulated boxscore of a baseball game. TheKnickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York defeated the Gotham Club 21-12 on July5.Shoeless Joe Jackson, the best major league player not inthe Hall of Fame was born on this day in 1887. Babe Ruth once said of Jackson "I copied Jackson's style because I thought hewas the greatest hitter I had ever seen.. He's the guy who made me ahitter." Jackson was implicated in the 1919 Black Soxscandal as one of the 8 men who threw the World Series. During that seriesJackson led both teams in hits and batting average, did not commit a singleerror and even threw a runner out at the plate. Jackson has the third highest career batting average in MLB history at.356.On July 6 1897 - At the age of 45, Chicago's Cap Ansonbecomes the first major leaguer to amass 3,000 hits when he singled offBaltimore's George Blackburn. As a matter of fact, it took years for the figurefilberts of baseball to come to