Heavy Hitters - Players that made it big outside of baseball

[ramram]

I'd be interested to see cards and items of players that made it big outside of baseball.

Below is one of them. Batting 5th for Yale, 1st baseman....

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[bbcard1]

Had prohibition taken, Billy Sunday would have been possibly the most influential American of the 20th century.

While his ballcards are pricey, though not really when you consider that he would become known to millions as an evangelist, there are many postcards from his preaching tours that are in the financial grasp of most collectors.

[Brian Van Horn]

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[Brian Van Horn]

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[CMIZ5290]

Ty Cobb made a fortune in Coca Cola stock.....

[Paul S]

Originally Posted by CMIZ5290

Ty Cobb made a fortune in Coca Cola stock.....

True, and he gave Sam Crawford the stock tip but Sam wouldn't bite.

[peterb69]

[bn2cardz]

No scans, but HOFer and former US senator Jim Bunning.

[Sean]

One of my favorite baseball trivia questions is "who played right field for the Yankees the year before Babe Ruth got there"? Actually the Yanks tried three different guys, but one of them was George Halas. He appeared in 12 games and only hit .091,so he was sent back down. He gave up baseball after 1919, but he used to say that one of his greatest thrills in sports was when he hit a pitch from Walter Johnson out of the park (it went foul, however).

Does anyone know if Halas ever appeared on a baseball card?

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Sean

One of my favorite baseball trivia questions is "who played right field for the Yankees the year before Babe Ruth got there"? Actually the Yanks tried three different guys, but one of them was George Halas. He appeared in 12 games and only hit .091,so he was sent back down. He gave up baseball after 1919, but he used to say that one of his greatest thrills in sports was when he hit a pitch from Walter Johnson out of the park (it went foul, however).

Does anyone know if Halas ever appeared on a baseball card?

Sean

Sometime back, I was told there is a BB related item that pictures George Halas. but, I have not seen it.

George Halas 1952 BOWMAN FB card.



TED Z

[EvilKing00]

Larry Bird....

[novakjr]

Originally Posted by tedzan

Sean

Sometime back, I was told there is a BB related item that pictures George Halas. but, I have not seen it.

TED Z

I imagine he's probably one on of the team photos in a guide somewhere..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1918-Great-L...item53f0d519eb

[bbcard1]

Originally Posted by novakjr

I imagine he's probably one on of the team photos in a guide somewhere..

http://www.ebay.com/itm/1918-Great-L...item53f0d519eb

TCMA put out a series of cards of former baseball players who would sign through the mail with a list of their addresses. Halas was included. This was the 1970s...and yes, i have a signed one somewhere at home from when I sent it to him as a kid.

[birdman42]

Gone but not forgotten. After his playing days with the Orioles (one game), White Sox (two seasons), and Pittsburgh Burghers of the Players' League (one season), Tener went into business in the Pittsburgh area. He was elected to the US House of Representatives in 1908, then as Governor of Pennsylvania in 1910. He was elected as president of the National League in 1913, and served there at half-pay until his term as governor was up. Tener was the man who suspended and fined McGraw for umpire abuse, then fined him an additional $1,000 when McGraw complained to a reporter.

Bill

(My pin, but not my card--image from the Library of Congress)

[Bocabirdman]

John Berardino went on to be a longtime soap opera/ "B" actor.

[EvilKing00]

What about Uecker

[Tom Hufford]

It would be hard to top Franklin Walter Olin, major league outfielder 1884-85. An engineering graduate of Cornell, after his ball-playing days he went into the powder manufacturing business (i.e. gunpowder not bath powder), and founded the F.W. Olin Company. He supplied France with ammunition during World War I, then entered into the automotive and appliance field. His company later became the Olin-Mathison Chemical Corporation, and today is known as the Olin Corporation. More than 60 years after Olin's death, his corporation is still a multi-billion dollar a year business, and is one of the Fortune 500 companies.

I wrote a short bio of Olin for a SABR publication 30+ years ago, but can't find a link to it now. A much more complete bio can be found here:

http://sabr.org/bioproj/person/0daaa2df

[Exhibitman]

[EGreenwood]

Here is a 1973 postcard of an aspiring major league ball player that left the minor leagues for the squared circle. Oh yeaa!

[tedzan]

Originally Posted by Bocabirdman

John Berardino went on to be a longtime soap opera/ "B" actor.

TED Z

[travrosty]

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[travrosty]

A bearded man who goes by the name of fidel castro. got a tryout but figured iron fisted head of state better suited him.

[Leon]

This semi-unknown ran for Treasurer then much later had some kind of award named after him.

[pitchernut]

Thought I might have a well loved E135 of his by now... and the others are locked away for now. Don't know if being a sheriff is "BIG" time.

ps copied the news article from the web

[Bocabirdman]

Bo Belinsky did OK for himself outside of baseball.