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 The Shoeless Joe Jackson Statue
Shown left to right: Sculptor Douglas R. Young; Shoeless Joe Virtual Hall of Fame Web site administrator Mike Nola; U.S. Representative Jim DeMint. When in Greenville, visit City Hall for a brochure about Joe Jackson and see places such as the statue plaza, the memorial ballpark in West Greenville, and Joe's grave at Woodlawn Memorial Park on Wade hampton Blvd. The brochure gives directions to all sites. Fans leave baseballs, bats and other things at the gravesite, usually the items are inscribed with messages to Joe, and Kate, his wife. The ballpark is at the location of the old Brandon Mill where Joe worked as a boy. About the Sculptor Douglas R. Young, a Greenville artist (a native of Connersville, Indiana), attended Bob Jones University, in Greenville. Young studied sculpture under Adrianus Vanderstock, internationally known sculptor and and restoration artist. For more information on the art of sculpture, links are provided below.
Mike Nola's Shoeless Joe Jackson Virtual Hall of Fame. THE place for official Joe news and info. Douglas R. Young, sculptor of the Shoeless Joe statue Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art / Henry Moore sculptor The Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum American Institute for Conservation Sculpture in the South / Summerville SC Brookgreen Gardens Sculpture Garden / Pawleys Island SC The National Baseball Hall of Fame & Museum Comiskey Park, Chicago Illinois Statue of Ty Cobb / Turner Field, Atlanta GA
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