Jack Eugene Jensen was an American right fielder in Major League Baseball who played for three American League teams from 1950 to 1961, most notably the Boston Red Sox.
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20 Facts About Jackie Jensen
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Jackie Jensen was named the AL's Most Valuable Player in 1958 after hitting 35 home runs and leading the league with 122 runs batted in ; he led the league in RBIs two other years, and in triples and stolen bases once each.
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Jackie Jensen retired in his early thirties as major-league baseball expanded westward, due to an intense fear of flying.
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Jackie Jensen's parents divorced when he was five, and he was raised by his mother, who frequently moved the family.
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Jackie Jensen pitched Cal to victory in the regional final by outdueling Bobby Layne of Texas, and in the championship Cal defeated a Yale team featuring future President George Bush.
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Jackie Jensen appeared as a pinch runner for Bobby Brown in the eighth inning of Game 3 of the 1950 World Series against the Philadelphia Phillies, but was in the game only briefly before Johnny Mize popped up to end the inning.
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Jackie Jensen did not appear in the 1951 Series against the New York Giants.
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In May 1952 Jackie Jensen was sent to the Washington Senators in a six-player deal, and he made his first All-Star team.
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Jackie Jensen was traded to the Red Sox in December 1953, and led the AL with 22 steals in 1954, finishing third in RBIs and fourth in home runs.
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Smack in his productive prime at 32, Jackie Jensen announced his retirement from baseball in January 1960, primarily because of an intense fear of flying, but the result of the long separations from his family.
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Jackie Jensen made a comeback attempt with Boston in 1961, but turned to hypnotherapy when his panic attacks at airports became unbearable.
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Jackie Jensen appeared in four episodes of Home Run Derby, which aired in 1960.
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Jackie Jensen managed the minor league Jamestown Falcons in 1970.
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On October 16,1949, Jackie Jensen married Zoe Ann Olsen, the silver medalist in diving at the 1948 Summer Olympics; the couple divorced on May 18,1963, remarried on July 11,1964, and divorced again on January 17,1968.
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Jackie Jensen had three children by his first wife – Jon, Jan, and Jay.
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Jackie Jensen died at or on the way to University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville, Virginia, at the age of 55 after suffering an apparent heart attack at his home near Scottsville, Virginia.
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Jackie Jensen was one of several Red Sox players featured in the 1957 Norman Rockwell painting The Rookie.
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Jackie Jensen was inducted into the Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame in 1983, the College Football Hall of Fame in 1984, and the Boston Red Sox Hall of Fame in 2000.
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