Who is the player and does he have a card?
I graduated high school in 1968 in Mableton, GA, going to Pebblebrook High School. As you turn out of the school parking lot there was, across the street, a sand dredging operation and out front, on a pretty good sized billboard, it pictured a baseball player sliding into home base with the caption (name escapes me) and "Longest Slide since Ty Cobb". Anyone know of a player with that dubious honor? I suspect he was from around that part of Georgia, can't picture the uniform, can't remember the name. Just something that has bugged me for a lot of years. I visited the area a few years back but everything is gone or built up in expensive houses (whole area was a swamp when I went to high school there.
I know it's not much to go on, but would be eternally (or even longer) grateful if someone came up with a name and maybe a picture of the card of the gentleman.
With that I could look for old neighbors and ask them if they knew him by name.
Stranger things have happened. Growing up my folks had a place up on Lake Lanier. Luke Appling was a neighbor but he was a pretty grumpy old man, didn't want to talk baseball with kids and didn't want to sign anything. I got chased off his porch more than once.
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