Deadball Era Player Other Talents?

[irishdenny]

Good Day All!
I do Hope that You & Yours are Enjoying This Season's Events...

I was just thinking about how talented Athletes' can be, away from their chosen Profession! For instance, I know that Christy Mathewson was a Phenomenal Checker Player. He would take on the Best of the Best!
In one of the books that I read about him, Matty took on like 5 guys at once(maybe more?) and beat them All... it seems he rarely, if ever lost!

So, I'm Interested in seeing what you Guys & Gals can tell me about any other Prewar Athletes'(Mainly Baseball), that had other Talents, However obscure...?

This Should Be Interesting... imho

[Bugsy]

Bugs Raymond was a world-class drinker

[Steve D]

Mike Donlin appeared on Broadway as an actor, and then went on to play in 65 movies from 1917 until his death in 1933.


Steve

[tedzan]

"Turkey " Mike Donlin and his wife were in Vaudville when he wasn't playing for the NY Giants. After his BB career, Mike went onto Hollywood and appeared
in many movies.

Had Mike taken his BB career more serious...."he would have been a contender"....for the BB HOF with his lifetime career BB = .333








TED Z

[tedzan]

Steve D

Gee....you beat me to posting about Donlin, while I was typing....great minds think alike


TED Z
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Jim Thorpe

[Hot Springs Bathers]

Don't forget, Matty was considered one of the best college football players in the country at Bucknell.

[Bocabirdman]

A Johnny Kling Model Billiards Table

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