which aired on the NBC anthology television series Cavalcade of America. Child actor Gary Gray played Jensen as a sixteen-year-old. Jensen appeared in four episodes of Home Run Derby, which aired in 1960. He was 2–2 in his appearances, defeating Ernie Banks and Rocky Colavito, while losing twice to Mickey Mantle. Later life Following his retirement, Jensen became sports director at radio station KTVN in Reno, Nevada, worked as a college football broadcaster for ABC television, and coached baseball at the University of Nevada and at the University of California, Berkeley. He also managed the minor league Jamestown Falcons in 1970. He was co-owner of the Bow & Bell restaurant with Charles "Boots" Erb in Jack London Square in Oakland, California. On October 16, 1949, 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. In February 1968, he married Katherine Cortezi. Jensen had three children by his first wife – Jon, Jan, and Jay. Jay's son Tucker Jensen pitched in two NCAA Division II Baseball Tournaments for Embry–Riddle Aeronautical University, pitched in the Toronto Blue Jays organization during 2011–2012, and pitched for the Gateway Grizzlies of the independent Frontier League during 2013–2014. 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. He is interred in Amherst, Virginia. Legacy Jensen was one of several Red Sox players featured in the 1957 Norman Rockwell painting The Rookie. 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. Also in 2000, The Golden Boy: A Biography of Jackie Jensen was published, with a foreword by Curt Gowdy. Notes See also List of Major League Baseball annual runs batted in leaders List of Major League Baseball annual stolen base leaders List of Major League Baseball annual triples leaders References Baseball: The Biographical Encyclopedia (2000). Kingston, New York: Total/Sports Illustrated. . ESPN College Football Encyclopedia (2005). New York: ESPN Books. . Further reading External links , or Retrosheet 1927 births 1982 deaths All-American college football players American football running backs American League All-Stars American League RBI