[tedzan]

I was happy to see Jack Coombs in the T201 set. I always wondered why Coombs was never featured in the T206 and T205 sets. With a 71-32 W-L
record, Coombs was 2nd to Matty in W-L percentage during the T206 production era (1909 - 1911). Jack led the A.L. in 1910 with 31 wins, and led
the A.L. in 1911 with 28 wins. He single-handedly won the World Series for the A's in 1910 with a 3-0 performance....plus batting .385 in the Series.
Check-out his 1910 stats on his T201 card (31-9).

Hey guys....with numbers like these, does anyone out there have a good explanation why Jack Coombs was not included in the T206 or T205 sets ?
Please chime in with your theory's.






Eddie Grant was the first Major League ballplayer to die in WWI....in the Argonne Forest campaign in France in 1918. In 1917, Grant enlisted in the U.S.
Army and reached the rank of Captain in his infantry battalion. Eddie Grant played for the Phillies, Cincinnati, and the New York Giants from 1907-1915.

In 1921, the New York Giants dedicated a memorial plaque to honor Eddie Grant in the Polo Grounds. It's my understanding that this plaque now resides
in the San Francisco ballpark.


TED Z