Winter Leagues
Jacobs won batting titles in Panama in the 1948–1949 season for the Carta Vieja Yankees, and in Cuba in 1955–1956 for the Leones de la Habana.
Jacobs also had the game-winning Cuban championship walk-off hit in 1952–1953 for the Azules de Almandares managed by Bobby Bragan. Because of Jacobs' exploits he was honored by being elected into the Cuban Baseball Hall of Fame and the Cuban Sports Hall of Fame. To date the only American to receive both prestigious honors.
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Famous quotes containing the words winter and/or leagues:
“Out alone in the winter rain,
Intent on giving and taking pain.”
—Robert Frost (1874–1963)
“Struck in the wet mire
Four thousand leagues from the ninth buried city
I thought of Troy, what we had built her for.”
—Allen Tate (1899–1979)