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Dan BrettaI don't have the Colliers book so I can only speculate as to why the Pelicans were included in the book, but Jackson wasn't completely unknown in 1910 as he had led the Carolina league in batting in 1908 his first year of organized professional baseball and was picked up by Connie Mack....getting picked up by Mack at that time would have brought some notoriety...of course he fled back to his home-state because he was homesick...and the next season was among the league leaders in batting in the Sally league...In 1910 Jackson was brought up at the end of the season and tore it up in Cleveland...depending on when the editors of the book decided to put the Pelicans team photo in the book he may have been pretty well known.