Randy Jackson (baseball)
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Jackson in 1953.
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| Third baseman | |||
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Born: February 10, 1926 Little Rock, Arkansas |
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| MLB debut | |||
| May 2, 1950, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
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| September 25, 1959, for the Chicago Cubs | |||
| MLB statistics | |||
| Batting average | .261 | ||
| Home runs | 103 | ||
| Runs batted in | 415 | ||
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Ransom Joseph Jackson (born February 10, 1926) is a former American Major League Baseball (MLB) player for the Chicago Cubs (1950–1955), Dodgers (1956–1958; two seasons in Brooklyn, one in Los Angeles), Cleveland Indians (1958–1959), and ended his career back with the Cubs (1959). A book on Jackson’s career, Handsome Ransom Jackson: Accidental Big Leaguer, will be released by Rowman & Littlefield May 2016.
In his book, co-authored with Gaylon H. White, Jackson tells his life story from his boyhood days in Little Rock and Helena, Arkansas, to his years playing football and baseball at the University of Texas with legendary National Football League quarterback Bobby Layne to becoming a two-time National League All-Star for the Chicago Cubs and playing for the Dodgers both in Brooklyn and Los Angeles, where many of his teammates were future Hall of Famers. The book features a foreword by Roger Craig, a former major-league pitcher, coach and manager.
After a year at the University of Arkansas, he transferred twice, and helped lead the football teams of Texas Christian University (1945) and the University of Texas at Austin (1946) to consecutive Cotton Bowl Classic appearances as a halfback. Playing baseball in college he hit .500, .438 and .400.
The Chicago Cubs drafted Jackson and on 2 May 1950, the 24-year-old made his major-league début. "Handsome Ransom" had four solid seasons at third base for the Cubs from 1951 to 1955.
Jackson followed up a slow rookie season (in which he had 111 at-bats over 34 games) with a solid second season, in which he hit .276 with 76 RBI and 16 home runs. He struggled again in his third major-league season, his average falling to .232, with 34 RBI and 9 home runs.
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