t206 players, has anyone ever met a player?

Tom Hufford · #1 02-05-2013, 08:03 PM

I attended the 1971 Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, and had the privilege of meeting Rube Marquard and Zach Wheat, from the T205 and T206 sets, as well as Larry Gardner, and Harry Hooper, in addition to Marquard and Wheat, from the T207 set. (I think Max Carey was there, too - I'll have to get out my autographed balls from that trip, to make sure). Casey Stengel was there, also, so I met someone from the T210 set, too!

Larry Gardner and Ernie Shore (not in any T set) came to see their Red Sox teammate Harry Hooper inducted. Wickey McAvoy (1913-19), Al Schacht, and Zach Wheat's brother Mack (1915-21) were there, too, but they came along after the T cards, also.

The highlight of my visit, which I've detailed before in this forum, was when I met Rube Marquard in the hotel lobby, and after a while he said, "How long will you be here? If you're going to be here a while, I'll get something from my room and show you." So, of course I waited while he went upstairs. He returned with a scrapbook from his career, and we sat in the hotel lobby for several hours while he went through the scrapbook page-by-page, telling me stories about each game, and many of the players. How I wish I had had a tape recorder! We then exchanged Christmas cards for a number of years, until his death (even though he was Jewish!). Can you imagine a current HOFer doing that?

benderbroeth · #2 02-05-2013, 10:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Tom Hufford

I attended the 1971 Hall of Fame induction ceremony in Cooperstown, and had the privilege of meeting Rube Marquard and Zach Wheat, from the T205 and T206 sets, as well as Larry Gardner, and Harry Hooper, in addition to Marquard and Wheat, from the T207 set. (I think Max Carey was there, too - I'll have to get out my autographed balls from that trip, to make sure). Casey Stengel was there, also, so I met someone from the T210 set, too!

Larry Gardner and Ernie Shore (not in any T set) came to see their Red Sox teammate Harry Hooper inducted. Wickey McAvoy (1913-19), Al Schacht, and Zach Wheat's brother Mack (1915-21) were there, too, but they came along after the T cards, also.

The highlight of my visit, which I've detailed before in this forum, was when I met Rube Marquard in the hotel lobby, and after a while he said, "How long will you be here? If you're going to be here a while, I'll get something from my room and show you." So, of course I waited while he went upstairs. He returned with a scrapbook from his career, and we sat in the hotel lobby for several hours while he went through the scrapbook page-by-page, telling me stories about each game, and many of the players. How I wish I had had a tape recorder! We then exchanged Christmas cards for a number of years, until his death (even though he was Jewish!). Can you imagine a current HOFer doing that?

I do not suppose you have any pictures of those Christmas cards?

Cy2009 · #3 03-06-2013, 12:24 PM

I have never met a player from the T206 era, but I do have an interesting story about meeting descendants of famous players.

I teach math on the college level for my career. This semester in my Pre-Calculus class I have a student whose last name is Snodgrass. So I approach her, ask if she is related to Fred Snodgrass, and I show her a T206 of Snodgrass batting. She goes home and the next class informs me that her father told her that Fred was her great-great-grandfather!

Now this is amazing on its own. But just the other day I notice a student's name is Creekmur. I knew his name but it didn't dawn on me to ask if he is related to Lou Creekmur, the NFL Hall of Famer from the 1950's. Now this student sits two seats down from Snodgrass. He immediately says yes that Lou was his great-grandfather. I am more amazed. So I start to tell him about Snodgrass and how she is a descendant of a baseball player from the early 1900s. As I am doing this, the student who sits right in between these two says that HIS great-great-grandfather played baseball during the early 1900s. Then he asks me, "Have you ever heard of Tris Speaker?" The student's name is Speaker. But again, I didn't think to ask him.

As a mathematician, the odds of this happening is amazing! And these three descendants of famous players sit side-by-side-by-side!

Cy

bn2cardz · #4 03-06-2013, 01:01 PM

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Originally Posted by Cy2009

I have never met a player from the T206 era, but I do have an interesting story about meeting descendants of famous players.

I teach math on the college level for my career. This semester in my Pre-Calculus class I have a student whose last name is Snodgrass. So I approach her, ask if she is related to Fred Snodgrass, and I show her a T206 of Snodgrass batting. She goes home and the next class informs me that her father told her that Fred was her great-great-grandfather!

Now this is amazing on its own. But just the other day I notice a student's name is Creekmur. I knew his name but it didn't dawn on me to ask if he is related to Lou Creekmur, the NFL Hall of Famer from the 1950's. Now this student sits two seats down from Snodgrass. He immediately says yes that Lou was his great-grandfather. I am more amazed. So I start to tell him about Snodgrass and how she is a descendant of a baseball player from the early 1900s. As I am doing this, the student who sits right in between these two says that HIS great-great-grandfather played baseball during the early 1900s. Then he asks me, "Have you ever heard of Tris Speaker?" The student's name is Speaker. But again, I didn't think to ask him.

As a mathematician, the odds of this happening is amazing! And these three descendants of famous players sit side-by-side-by-side!

Cy

That is very neat. It is awesome that you helped Snodgrass figure out her lineage too since it sounds like she didn't even know her relation.

benderbroeth · #5 03-12-2013, 11:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Cy2009

I have never met a player from the T206 era, but I do have an interesting story about meeting descendants of famous players.

I teach math on the college level for my career. This semester in my Pre-Calculus class I have a student whose last name is Snodgrass. So I approach her, ask if she is related to Fred Snodgrass, and I show her a T206 of Snodgrass batting. She goes home and the next class informs me that her father told her that Fred was her great-great-grandfather!

Now this is amazing on its own. But just the other day I notice a student's name is Creekmur. I knew his name but it didn't dawn on me to ask if he is related to Lou Creekmur, the NFL Hall of Famer from the 1950's. Now this student sits two seats down from Snodgrass. He immediately says yes that Lou was his great-grandfather. I am more amazed. So I start to tell him about Snodgrass and how she is a descendant of a baseball player from the early 1900s. As I am doing this, the student who sits right in between these two says that HIS great-great-grandfather played baseball during the early 1900s. Then he asks me, "Have you ever heard of Tris Speaker?" The student's name is Speaker. But again, I didn't think to ask him.

As a mathematician, the odds of this happening is amazing! And these three descendants of famous players sit side-by-side-by-side!

Cy

Wow an amazing story!!! Thanks!!!

benderbroeth · #6 10-29-2013, 07:46 PM

Bump again

the 'stache · #7 10-29-2013, 10:27 PM

Ed, thank you for starting this thread. It immediately becomes one of my favorites. /subscribed!

williamcohon · #8 10-30-2013, 11:08 AM

Tom Hufford wrote of Rube Marquard: "We then exchanged Christmas cards for a number of years, until his death (even though he was Jewish!)."

That really caught my eye because I collect the the cards of old Jewish ballplayers. I had never before read anything about Rube Marquard being Jewish. And there was no hint of a Jewish background in his conversation with Larry Ritter in "The Glory of their Times."

A little googling turned up the explanation that Rube and his wife were both buried in the Baltimore Hebrew Cemetary, with her family, but that they were both Christian Scientists.

Rube must have been a great guy. And this has been a fun thread.

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