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Posted By: Anonymous

Rube Waddell played for Mike Cantillon at Minneapolis. The Minneapolis Millers were doing a bit of spring training, they were playing the Memphis club in an exhibition at Hickman, Kentucky in late March of 1912. The team had also appeared at Owensboro, Kentucky. The Ohio River was flooding, and Waddell helped stack sandbags, all through the night, in the cold waters, trying to save the town of Hickman, after the town's levee broke. The town's bells pealed about 2am, the players left the hotel, Rube stripped off his shirt and waded into the breach.

It is thought that Waddell developed respiratory problems during that ordeal. He retreated to San Antonio, Texas, at the direction of the team, in hopes that the dry climate would help. Waddell died of Tuberculosis in the spring of 1914.

I'd think that Colgan's could have ceased production of his cards with the Minn designation, and that might be why you have his Minn card among the more difficult.

Frank