Show Us Your Battle-Worn Vets:

[clydepepper]

Thanking them for both their Service AND their Playing Career.


I'll get us started with three Hall-of-Famers from the 'Greatest Generation'. Three who saw actual battle!

They are all gone now, but never forgotten:


1941 Play Ball TED WILLIAMS SGC-60.jpg1952 TOPPS Black Back - WARREN SPAHN PSA-6.5.jpg1952 Topps-BOB FELLER PSA-7.jpg

[Leon]

Teddy Ballgame....close to 50/50

[realbigfatdog]

Not a card, but one of my favorite pictures of Yogi Berra, who stormed the beaches on D-Day.

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[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by realbigfatdog

Not a card, but one of my favorite pictures of Yogi Berra, who stormed the beaches on D-Day.

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Actually, Yogi didn't 'storm the beaches' but, as this portion of his SABR bio states, he was there and that counts:

'After the season Berra enlisted in the navy. He became a machine gunner and saw action on D-Day aboard a rocket boat deployed just off the Normandy coast before the soldiers assaulted the beach. Berra spent ten days on the 36-foot boat before he finally returned to his ship, the USS Bayfield, an attack transport.'


1948 Bowman Yogi Berra RC PSA-6.jpg1952 Topps-YOGI BERRA PSA-7.jpg1954 Bowman Yogi Berra PSA-8.jpg

[realbigfatdog]

Oops, I stand corrected. I knew that he was there, but I didn't know exactly what he did. Thanks for the info!

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[ullmandds]

My first t206...purchased c1982.

[MikeGarcia]

..Burke 4 x 6 and Goudey..

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[commishbob]

Eddie Grant was the first major league player to die in combat.

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This is the plaque that was installed at the Polo Grounds in his memory.

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Off Topic: This is the helmet my grandfather Manuel Andrews wore during his time as an infantryman with the 9th Batallion of the 2nd Division in France in 1918/1919. He suffered the effects of mustard gas during the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918 and it affected him to some extent for the rest of his life. He arrived in Key West from the Azore Islands as a stowaway at the age of 14. He Anglicized his name and falsified his age to join the Army at the age of 15 and was sent to France where the 2nd Division was formed.

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[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by commishbob

Eddie Grant was the first major league player to die in combat.

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This is the plaque that was installed at the Polo Grounds in his memory.

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Off Topic: This is the helmet my grandfather Manuel Andrews wore during his time as an infantryman with the 9th Batallion of the 2nd Division in France in 1918/1919. He suffered the effects of mustard gas during the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918 and it affected him to some extent for the rest of his life. He arrived in Key West from the Azore Islands as a stowaway at the age of 14. He Anglicized his name and falsified his age to join the Army at the age of 15 and was sent to France where the 2nd Division was formed.

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That's an awesome story, Bob. Thank You VERY much for sharing!!!

This October 5th will mark a Century since 'Harvard Eddie' fell. I plan an additional thread of appreciation for him on that day!

Here's My Eddie - also a T205:

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[brianp-beme]

Here is a war torn Zeenut card of career minor leaguer Howard Lindimore who served in the Armed Forces in 1918 during the WW1. You don't have to be major leaguer to have served your country in a major way.

Brian

[Chuck9788]

List of MLB players that were killed in WWI :


Bun Troy : Killed from wounds (reportedly a bullet to the chest) received in combat in the Argonne Forest in October 1918.

Harry Chapman : Died at age 30 in Nevada, Missouri in 1918, from injuries sustained serving in the military during World War I.

Tom Burr : Killed in an airplane accident on October 12, 1918 while serving in the United States Army Air Service in Cazaux, France. After colliding with a fellow pilot, Burr's plane crashed into a lake in flames; his body was recovered after 12 days. He had been serving in France and was 24 years old at the time of his death.

Larry Chappell : Died at the age of 28 in an army camp in France from the Spanish flu of 1918.

Harry Glenn : Drafted to serve in the military in August 1918. He served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps. He developed pneumonia and died in a St. Paul Hospital in October 1918.

Newt Halliday : Attended the Great Lakes Naval Training Station, where he contracted tuberculosis, which led to his death at the age of 21.

Ralph Sharman : Drowned while swimming in the Alabama River during training at Camp Sheridan, Alabama on May 24, 1918.

[Jobu]

Ty didn't see actual battle, but drilling soldiers using live chemical weapons definitely takes cojones: https://www.detroitathletic.com/blog...nt-off-to-war/

[Leon]

That is a very cool helmet. Wow. Great story and service to our country.

Originally Posted by commishbob

Eddie Grant was the first major league player to die in combat.

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This is the plaque that was installed at the Polo Grounds in his memory.

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Off Topic: This is the helmet my grandfather Manuel Andrews wore during his time as an infantryman with the 9th Batallion of the 2nd Division in France in 1918/1919. He suffered the effects of mustard gas during the Battle of Belleau Wood in 1918 and it affected him to some extent for the rest of his life. He arrived in Key West from the Azore Islands as a stowaway at the age of 14. He Anglicized his name and falsified his age to join the Army at the age of 15 and was sent to France where the 2nd Division was formed.

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[Koufax32fan]

Let's not forget Hank. (The photo was grabbed from the Net.)

[clydepepper]

Originally Posted by Koufax32fan

Let's not forget Hank. (The photo was grabbed from the Net.)

Yes! Yes!

1934 GOUDEY - HANK GREENBERG PSA-5.jpg

[tedzan]

Raymond

Here's an interesting WWII story for you regarding Murry Dickson (a 20-year career Relief Pitcher).........



In 1944, Murry Dickson was a Sergeant in the Army in the midst of serious battles in Germany. There he met General George S. Patton. As Dickson recounted it,
Patton stepped outside an observation post to get a better look at the German artillery. An enemy shell exploded near them, Patton then piled on top of Dickson
in a foxhole to protect Dickson. A few days later, Dickson's Commanding Officer called him into his office and handed him a request from General Patton. Patton
wanted Sergeant Dickson to be his jeep driver. Dickson begged his Commanding Officer to get him out of that assignment because he said Patton was "crazy",
and that he would get them all killed.



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T206 Reference
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[GregZakwin]