Jim Bluejacket

Jim Bluejacket (born William Lincoln Smith July 8, 1887 – March 26, 1947) was a major league pitcher in the early 20th century.

While pitching for Bloomington at the age of 27 in 1914 he got the attention of the major league scouts by winning twelve games in a row and was signed by the New York Giants.

Without throwing a pitch, he picked off the runner at first base for the third out and was credited with the victory after his team scored the winning run in the bottom of the ninth.

He was employed there for 15 years and devoted countless hours to the youth of Aruba and was instrumental in the founding of the Lago Sports Park there.

The 1910 census shows that a 27-year-old man named Charley Mantle was living with Bluejacket's parents, William & Lucy Smith, as a hired hand on their farm in Adair Township, Mayes County, Oklahoma.