When Did the Last Surviving T206 Subject Pass Away?

[Pat R]

Rube Marquard was the last living T206 subject that played in the major leagues he died on June 1 1980.

[piecesofthegame]

Thanks for that Pat. So Seitz died in August 1980, a couple months later. Although he did not play in majors, would he be last player from the set to pass away?

[oldjudge]

Not the same question but the oldest living Old Judge subject, Dummy Hoy, died in 1961 at the ripe old age of 99.

[piecesofthegame]

Jay…to take that a step further,
If you were 10 years old when you (hypothetically) met Hoy, you would only be about 74 today. So there are probably still plenty of living people who personally knew an Old Judge player. That blows my mind!

[Peter_Spaeth]

Originally Posted by piecesofthegame

Jay…to take that a step further,
If you were 10 years old when you (hypothetically) met Hoy, you would only be about 74 today. So there are probably still plenty of living people who personally knew an Old Judge player. That blows my mind!

We are probably close to the point where very few people are left who remember seeing Cobb, In addition of course to retaining long-term memory, I think you would have had to be maybe 7 or 8 at the time to truly remember (his last year was 1928), so born 1920 or 1921. Ruth played through 1935, so probably quite a few folks left in their late 90s who recall seeing him play. That's pretty amazing to me.

[G1911]

Red Hoff died in 1998 at the age of 107. He was in T207, and I believe was the last living 1909-1912 ATC card subject, sport or non-sport. Track athlete Abel Kiviat died in 1991 at 99 and was in T218.

[piecesofthegame]

Wow, 107! I wonder if that’s the oldest MLB player ever.