Jacob Nelson Fox

(1927-1975) lived in Lincoln. Professional baseball player, coach, businessman, played more than 15 seasons in the major leagues as a second baseman, compiling a .288 career batting average, receiving four Gold Glove awards, and playing in 798 consecutive games (1955-1960) to set the record for second basemen; he played for Lincoln of the Class A Western League in 1948; inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1997. Consult Current Biography (1960) 149-151 and Heroes of Sport (Bartholomew House, 1960) 71-89 and Lincoln Journal Star, August 3, 1997, pp. C-1, C-4 and Biographical Dictionary of American Sports: Baseball, Vol 1 (Greenwood Press, 2000) 499-500.

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