Show your Eddie Grant Cards

[ChrisStufflestreet]

It's Memorial Day, a day where the Americans among us are asked to remember that people have given their lives while trying to ensure our freedoms. Since Captain Eddie Grant was the most visible baseball player who gave the ultimate sacrifice, how about showing some of his cards here?

I'll start off with the one I used in my blog today (you'll find the link below). It's the only E90-1 I currently own:

[FrankWakefield]

The only Grant card I have is an E90-1... so I can't add a card.

Maybe someone doesn't know why those holes are in that card. Kids would punch holes in the tops, then string thread through the cards. This would be strung across the top of a mirror or along a wall. If you look at the holes in this card, the hole punch was punching baseball diamonds.

[pete zouras]

[Tcards-Please]

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[Chris Counts]

Here's a Double Folder, a Triple Folder, a B-1 Blanket and 1905 scorecard from Portland, Maine that features Grant in the line-up ...

[Chris Counts]

Here's a few photos of Eddie Grant Field at Dean College in Franklin, MA, which I visited a couple years ago. There's no plaque marking the field, which sadly is used for lacrosse and soccer these days. Also, I also visited the city library to see what they could tell me about Eddie, but I couldn't find anyone who had heard of him ...

[ChrisStufflestreet]

Originally Posted by FrankWakefield

The only Grant card I have is an E90-1... so I can't add a card.

Maybe someone doesn't know why those holes are in that card. Kids would punch holes in the tops, then string thread through the cards. This would be strung across the top of a mirror or along a wall. If you look at the holes in this card, the hole punch was punching baseball diamonds.

Frank, I hadn't noticed the shape of those holes. Thanks for the info.

I generally neglect to mention the part about holes in the card...and considering Grant was killed by shrapnel from a German artillery shell, I'm probably cautious about saying anything off-hand that would suggest I'm making light of the way he died.

[SteveMitchell]

Although not Pre-War or even Vintage, here is a great card of Eddie that briefly tells his heroic story. It is from Megacards' Conlon Collection (1995 edition).

[ethicsprof]

I have Pete Z's Grant, from above, but with the deep green background.

best,
barry

[Kawika]

Found this striking photo of Harvard Eddie at the LOC site:

[Chris Counts]

Could that be the same photo that was used for the T205? If you flipped the negative, it looks possible ...

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

Could that be the same photo that was used for the T205? If you flipped the negative, it looks possible ...

Good question, Chris. Photo (flipped) and T205 look to be ever-so-slightly off-kilter to my eye (never-minding the hat and collar configurations, which were sometimes airbrushed anyway). What is your opinion?

[ChiefBenderForever]

Amazing life he lived what an American Hero ! I have never heard of him until reading this , I am looking forward to picking up one or two of his cards and learning more about him. I was going to say people like this need to be in the Hall of Fame and then came across this-

"Baseball commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis had a very strong view that the Hall of Fame should be all about character. In the early years, he lobbied hard for a player named Eddie Grant, who went to Harvard and was both respected and admired around the game. Grant enlisted to fight in World War I after he retired, and was killed on a battlefield in Lorraine, France. He was a true hero. Grant's only real drawback as a Hall of Famer was that he wasn't a very good baseball player. He never got more than three votes."

here is the link- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...1817/index.htm

[bbcarddan]

We gonna rock down to electric avenue!!!! Sorry I couldn`t resist.


I posted this before reading the details about him. I did not realize he served his country and paid the ultimate price.Sorry if my little attempt at humor offended anyone or his memory it was not my intent.

[tbob]

I respect and admire Eddie Grant but the wounded and deceased veterans of world wars should go in on their baseball merit, like Warren Spahn.