DONLIN & CONNORS....from BB to Actors....any others ?

[tedzan]

Thanks for posting your 1952 MC Chuck Connors card. I have many of the cards in this issue,
but the Connors card has eluded me.

And yes....Cap Anson was probably one of the first BB players to seek the lure of the footlights.
Anson made his theatrical debut in 1895 while in the twilight of his BB career. His first vaudeville
show was a "flop". And, I don't know how well he fared in his subsequent gigs.

Best regards,

TED Z

[glynparson]

Appeared in a play entitled The College Widow.

[BillyCoxDodgers3B]

There was a guy named Cy Malis who did some bit acting. He pitched one game for the 1934 Phillies. Besides that, he founded Narcotics Anonymous. Not a bad career!

Jophrey Brown became a Hollywood stuntman.

A guy named James Donaldson Brown apparently acted in some silent films.

An even more obscure player named George Crable was on the Vaudeville circuit.

I think Hal Chase might have done some Vaudeville as well.

[tedzan]

Thanks for sharing your Presidential letters written to Chuck Connors with us.

If you have any more Connors related stuff, please post it.


TED Z

[Jay Wolt]

Ted, not much else to show except an auto 8 x 10

[T206Collector]

Of course Bob Uecker, if we were getting more recent.

But for vintage, the following is from my Rube Marquard article, which was printed in SGC Collector Magazine a few years ago and is available on my website:

As was not entirely uncommon for baseball players in the early part of the 20th Century, Marquard spent three years on the vaudeville circuit. In fact, he was once married to famed vaudeville singer Blossom Seeley. And Marquard also starred on the silver screen. In 1912, Marquard was featured in a movie with Alice Joyce entitled Rube Marquard Wins. According to a review from Motion Picture World dated August 24, 1912 (available on-line at http://www.stanford.edu/~gdegroat/AJ...ts1912.htm#rmw), Joyce, playing herself in the movie, helped foil a plot to imprison Marquard in order to prevent him from pitching in a decisive game.

From Autographed T206

[tedzan]

Part of my conversation with Chuck (20 years ago), we talked about one of my favorite Western movies, "The Big Country".
He played a real bad dude in it; and, he told me of some great stories regarding the filming of it.

I have a favor to ask of you....when you get a chance, please email me at......tedzan11@comcast.net

Thanks,

TED Z