DATE OF IMAGE: 1918 PRINT DATE: 1950s ORIGINAL or REPRINT: Type 4 - Second or later-generation photo, printed from a duplicate negative or wire photo process, in a later period TEAM: St. Louis Browns SUBJECT: Fielder Jones APPROXIMATE SIZE: 9"x7-1/8" NUMBER OF PHOTOS: 1 COMMENTS / CONDITION: This is one of a large accumulation of vintage sports photographs, slides and negatives that we will be listing over the coming months. Wear on these, if any, is mostly confined to minor corner and edge wear, but see scans for further details including condition. We do not deal in stock images or modern reprints, and all scans shown are of the actual vintage photograph, slide or negative being sold. If you have any questions about a particular piece, please ask before the auction ends. BIO: Fielder Allison Jones was born in 1871 in Shinglehouse, PA and died in 1934 in Portland, OR. He played major league baseball for a single season in 1896 as outfielder for the Brooklyn Bridegrooms, Brooklyn Superbas, Chicago White Sox, and the St. Louis Terriers, and appeared in the 1906 World Series. Frustrated by the team's narrow loss of the pennant in 1908 and owner Charles Comiskey's tight pockets, Jones retired after the season and went into the lumber business in the Pacific Northwest. He later returned to baseball as coach of what would later become Oregon State University and as player-manager of the Chehalis Gophers of the Washington State League in 1910 and then as President of the Northwestern League from 1912 to 1914. Jones returned to the major leagues as manager of the St. Louis Terriers of the Federal League in 1914 (replacing Mordecai Brown). In 1915, he brought his team to within percentage points of the pennant. After the Federal League folded, Terriers owner Phil Ball bought the St. Louis Browns and brought Jones on to replace Branch Rickey as skipper. He remained with the club for two and a half seasons, before resigning on June 12, 1918, after a loss to the Washington Senators. The Browns of those days were notorious because a number of their players had a reputation for throwing games for money; one of its members in 1918 was infielder Joe Gedeon who would later be banned for life for his role in the Black Sox Scandal. Such shenanigans did not go down well with Jones, and detracted from some of his success as a manager. After leaving the Browns behind, Jones never returned to organized baseball. He moved back to Oregon and for awhile was in the lumber and growing business in McMinnville, OR. He kept his love for the game and was active in promoting amateur baseball, and in fact was attending a booster club meeting when he was taken ill in February 1934. He died of heart failure a few weeks later and his funeral was attended by a number of baseball luminaries. SKU: SPP01250
Item: SPP01250
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