This collection consists of 115 pieces of fan mail written to baseball player Joe “Shoeless Joe” Jackson in the years after his retirement. The correspondence was in the form of letters and postal cards and nearly all of the letters include the original mailing envelopes. Most of the letters are fan requests for autographs. Some of the autograph requests reference an article about Jackson that appeared in the October 1949 issue of Sport magazine, titled "This Is the Truth!". The article included Jackson’s home address prompting a large number of letters. Much of the correspondence was written by children and teenagers, and some of the autograph requests list other former baseball players the authors had collected autographs from. Only a few letters explicitly reference the Black Sox scandal that ended Jackson’s career in major league baseball. A handful of letters were received after Jackson’s death in 1951. A small number of letters are not autograph requests and deal with other subjects. Today, it is known that Jackson’s wife Katie signed the large majority of autograph requests that Jackson received. The collection contains no outgoing correspondence from the Jacksons. The collection includes one letter from 2004 written by William C. Webb, a teammate of Jackson’s on a semi-pro baseball team in Waycross, Georgia in 1925. Formats include letters, postal cards, and envelopes