country Jake

Country Jake moved back to York, Pennsylvania, running a taproom for two years.

In 1928, Hilldale traded Country Jake to the Homestead Grays.

Pretty soon we come to a nice innocent-looking young country jake setting on a log swabbing the sweat off of his face, for it was powerful warm weather; and he had a couple of big carpet-bags by him.

Country Jake hit .229 but played sufficient enough defense to help the Daisies to their third consecutive pennant and a victory in the Negro League World Series against the 1924 champion Monarchs.

Driscoll wrote of his life in Kansas in the Kansas Irish trilogy; the first two books published in 1943 (Kansas Irish) and 1946 (Country Jake) and the last East and West of Wichita in manuscript.