Jackie Jensen

 

Jack Eugene Jensen, "Jackie"
University of California, 1946-48
Oakland Oaks, 1949
NY Yankees, 1950-52
Washington Senators, 1952-53
Boston Red Sox, 1954-61

Football and baseball great Jackie Jensen was born in San Francisco 1927. An All-American halfback at the University of California, Berkeley, he also played on the UC baseball team as a pitcher-outfielder. Jensen began his professional career under Casey Stengel’s Oakland Oaks of the Pacific Coast League, and in 1949 was sold to the New York Yankees. He was traded to the Washington Senators in 1952, and a year later went to the Boston Red Sox where he played through 1961. In 1958, Jensen was named the American League MVP and led the league in runs-batted-in. He has the unique distinction of playing in both the Rose Bowl and the World Series. Enshrined in the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in1983.