National Baseball Hall of Famers from South Carolina
Larry Doby - first African-American to play baseball for the American League
Joeseph "Shoeless Joe" Jackson - Perhaps SC's most famous baseball player, Shoeless Joe has long been excluded from the Hall of Fame due to a possible but highly unlikely role in the Black Sox Scandal of 1919. Shoeless Joe's lifetime batting average of .356 stands as the third highest in baseball's history.