card #34 Jimmy Ward played in the NHL from 1928 to 1939 with the Montreal Maroons and Montreal Canadiens. He won the Stanley Cup in 1935. When the Maroons folded he joined the rival Montreal Canadiens for the 1938–39 season.
Ward's son, Pete Ward, played nine seasons of professional baseball, winning the Sporting News Rookie of the Year Award honors in 1963 while playing for the Chicago White Sox.