T206 "Doc"

Archive · #1 05-25-2003, 02:38 PM

Posted By: Wizard

The T206 Set has a number of players named "Doc".

Were they real Doctors or are these their names/nicknames?

Archive · #2 05-25-2003, 03:10 PM

Posted By: Hankron

I would be surprised if there was a single MD or Phd playing in the major leagues back then. I bet there were no more than a handful who had bachelors degrees.

Archive · #3 05-25-2003, 03:36 PM

Posted By: jay behrens

Not positive, but I believe Mike Marshall was the first player that became an MD.

Not sure why these players had the nickname "Doc". Maybe their father was one or might be a nick given to someone precieved as being very smart.

Jay

Archive · #4 05-25-2003, 03:49 PM

Posted By: Rhett

What about "Moonlight" Graham?

Archive · #5 05-25-2003, 06:33 PM

Posted By: Hankron

I forget his name (Ortiz?), but I had an index card signed by a player who played very briefly before WWII. He added an ',MD' after his name which I assumed meant be became a medical doctor.

Archive · #6 05-28-2003, 09:07 AM

Posted By: Wayne Grove

Don't forget Dr. Bobby Brown. You can ask Yogi, he knows what the doc read.

Archive · #7 05-28-2003, 09:31 AM

Posted By: warshawlaw

Yanks/rangers pitcher in the 1970's was an MD too--did part of his internship in the offseason.

Archive · #8 05-28-2003, 10:22 AM

Posted By: Anonymous

Thanks for all the responses.

Archive · #9 05-29-2003, 12:49 PM

Posted By: Bob Lemke

Mike "Doc" Powers who died tragically in April, 1909, was, accoording to contemporary accounts, indeed a physician, having graduated from Holy Cross College and "taken a medical course at Notre Damn University."

Archive · #10 05-29-2003, 01:33 PM

Posted By: Hankron

I think there is a differentiation between players who were simultaniously doctors, and players who became doctors after their playing days. The later is rare, and the former is almost nonexistant. As someone who never played Major League Ball and is not an MD, I'm common.

Archive · #11 05-29-2003, 05:10 PM

Posted By: Tom Lawrie

The guy graduated from Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in Baltimore, which probably explained why he played for the minor league Orioles. He's on the T206 set, Colgan's Chips, T205, Imperial Tobacco, and probably some others.

All of the medical school applicants to Hopkins at the time had to have bachelor's degrees, and were fluent in French or German.

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