Jack Glasscock - Definition and Overview

Jack Glasscock on an 1887-90 Goodwin & Company baseball card (Old Judge (N172)).

John Wesley Glasscock (July 22, 1859, Wheeling, West Virginia - February 24, 1947, Wheeling) was a baseball player for the Cleveland Blues (1879-1884), Cincinnati Outlaw Reds (1884), St. Louis Maroons (1885-1886), Indianapolis Hoosiers (1887-1889), New York Giants (1890-1891), St. Louis Browns (1892-1893), Pittsburgh Pirates (1893-1894), Louisville Colonels (1895), and the Washington Senators (1895).

Pebbly Jack played shortstop bare-handed. He hit for the cycle on August 8, 1889.

External links

• Career Statistics (http://www.baseball-reference.com/g/glassja01.shtml)
• A Collection of Clippings (http://wheeling.weirton.lib.wv.us/people/others/glasck3.htm)
• Bio on BaseballLibrary.com (http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/G/Glasscock_Jack.stm)
• Glasscock's Autobiography (http://www.cycleback.com/glasscock.htm)