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John Wesley “Captain Jack” Glasscock

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John Wesley “Captain Jack” Glasscock

Birth
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA
Death
24 Feb 1947 (aged 89)
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA
Burial
Wheeling, Ohio County, West Virginia, USA GPS-Latitude: 40.0599898, Longitude: -80.6806048
Plot
Peninsula Cemtery Lot 992, moved to Greenwood Sec: Pen, Lot 13, W-3
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Major League Baseball Player. A shortstop in professional baseball for many years, he had a lifetime batting average of .317. He played with Cleveland, St. Louis Maroons & St. Louis Brown Stockings, Indianapolis, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Paul and Sioux City in the Western league, and with the old Central league, and was for a time manager of the Ft. Wayne team. He was a player/manager for the St. Louis Brown Stockings now known as the St. Louis Cardinals. He was St. Louis' first manager of a National League team ...
the now St. Louis Cardinals. He was inducted into the Ohio Sports Hall of Fame.
***An open challenge to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY and the Baseball Writers and current
Baseball Hall of Fame baseball players to vote, John Wesley "Jack" Glasscock into Cooperstown - Baseball Hall of Fame on the next ballot for the Veterans Committe vote.
One of the best shortstops in the history of Major League baseball.
He was a close cousin to Baseball Hall of Famer,
Jesse Cail Burkett "the Crab" who also grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Jay McAfee (a distant cousin) discovered who John Wesley "Jack" Glasscock's parents are through his genealogical research of the Glas(s)cock family.
Many books and authors got it wrong in their books.
Major League Baseball Player. A shortstop in professional baseball for many years, he had a lifetime batting average of .317. He played with Cleveland, St. Louis Maroons & St. Louis Brown Stockings, Indianapolis, New York Giants, Pittsburgh Pirates, St. Paul and Sioux City in the Western league, and with the old Central league, and was for a time manager of the Ft. Wayne team. He was a player/manager for the St. Louis Brown Stockings now known as the St. Louis Cardinals. He was St. Louis' first manager of a National League team ...
the now St. Louis Cardinals. He was inducted into the Ohio Sports Hall of Fame.
***An open challenge to the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, NY and the Baseball Writers and current
Baseball Hall of Fame baseball players to vote, John Wesley "Jack" Glasscock into Cooperstown - Baseball Hall of Fame on the next ballot for the Veterans Committe vote.
One of the best shortstops in the history of Major League baseball.
He was a close cousin to Baseball Hall of Famer,
Jesse Cail Burkett "the Crab" who also grew up in Wheeling, West Virginia.
---------------
Jay McAfee (a distant cousin) discovered who John Wesley "Jack" Glasscock's parents are through his genealogical research of the Glas(s)cock family.
Many books and authors got it wrong in their books.

Bio by: Jerry A. McAfee



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