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Jake Goldie (born Jake Goldstein) played for numerous clubs in California in the late 1880s and into the 1890s. His record in Baseball-Reference is scattered, but so far I have tracked him as playing for San Francisco in 1888 (goldst001j--), Aspen and Leadville in 1889 (goldie002jac), Peoria, Muncie, Indianapolis, and Dubuque in 1890 (goldie001j--, goldie001---), back in California in 1891, and Texas in 1892 (goldie001tom). He was in Santa Cruz, California in the mid-1890s, but he turns up again in New Orleans in the spring of 1898 before playing with Shreveport that year. At that time, the papers said he played in Michigan in 1897. I've also found references to playing in Spokane in the late 1890s, and he was in Duluth for a few seasons in the early 1900s. At some point he returned to California, where he had a billiard hall in Calistoga.

In 1914, the Petaluma Morning Courier reported he was scouting for Comiskey of the White Sox and living in Portland. That same article indicated he was still playing ball the previous season in Santa Rosa.

he sounds like a guy who loved to play ball, and would travel anywhere to do so. I found references to a fiancee in California, a wife whom he married in Iowa, who died about a month later, a wife in Duluth, and then a wife when he moved to Portland in 1920 or so. Not sure if some or all of these are the same.

I think he died on December 24, 1940 in Long Beach while visiting a sister. The obituary describes him as a former ball player with the Cubs around the turn of the century. The life of Jake Goldie, just a guy who wanted to play ball.