Anyone related to a pre war player?

[MacDice]

My wife is a distant relative of former catcher, Harry Smith. I got a couple of his items but can't afford his E107 or W600.

[yanksfan09]

My friends Great (not sure how many greats) grand uncle of some sort is Cy Young.

I've spoke through email with a couple relatives of D381 Fleischmann players as well. Walter Traggesser's relative was one of them. However, unfortunately, I couldn't find that card for them, or myself for that matter...

[Matvoo]

Very cool!!!!!!

[DaveW]

Originally Posted by yanksfan09

My friends Great (not sure how many greats) grand uncle of some sort is Cy Young.

Well that beats me! But I have a good friend that is married to a girl named Leifield - great-niece of Lefty.

[drcy]

The closest I come is my great grandfather was the quarterback of the first Michigan State University football team.

This was always the family story and, it being a family story, I took the veracity with a grain of salt growing up. But as an adult I found in the library a history of MSU football book published by the univsirity and it had a photo of the team including my great grandfather. The old family story turned out to be true.

The father of my cousin-by-marriage played in the lower level minors Pre-War and the cousin has his uniforms, glove and contracts, includes a jersey with the 1939 Centennial patch. I showed him what just the patch itself has sold for at auction and he was pleased, though he has no intention of selling.

[Econteachert205]

My great great uncle was bill mellor who played one season for Baltimore in 1902. My cousin has a cabinet photo I'm trying to pry out of him.

[Bpm0014]

Cool thread topic!

[Eric72]

A friend of mine is a descendant of Pep Young. That's as close as I get to having a relative who was a Pre-War player.

Best regards,

Eric

[clydepepper]

My grandmother was Whitlow Wyatt's wife's first cousin.

[bbcard1]

I haven't confirmed it but due to his place of origin and our relatively odd spelling of the last name, I am fairly likely to be related to Johnny Marcum.