Show your Eddie Grant Cards

[ethicsprof]

I have Pete Z's Grant, from above, but with the deep green background.

best,
barry

[Kawika]

Found this striking photo of Harvard Eddie at the LOC site:

[Chris-Counts]

Could that be the same photo that was used for the T205? If you flipped the negative, it looks possible ...

[Kawika]

Originally Posted by Chris Counts

Could that be the same photo that was used for the T205? If you flipped the negative, it looks possible ...

Good question, Chris. Photo (flipped) and T205 look to be ever-so-slightly off-kilter to my eye (never-minding the hat and collar configurations, which were sometimes airbrushed anyway). What is your opinion?

[ChiefBenderForever]

Amazing life he lived what an American Hero ! I have never heard of him until reading this , I am looking forward to picking up one or two of his cards and learning more about him. I was going to say people like this need to be in the Hall of Fame and then came across this-

"Baseball commissioner Kennesaw Mountain Landis had a very strong view that the Hall of Fame should be all about character. In the early years, he lobbied hard for a player named Eddie Grant, who went to Harvard and was both respected and admired around the game. Grant enlisted to fight in World War I after he retired, and was killed on a battlefield in Lorraine, France. He was a true hero. Grant's only real drawback as a Hall of Famer was that he wasn't a very good baseball player. He never got more than three votes."

here is the link- http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/vau...1817/index.htm

[bbcarddan]

We gonna rock down to electric avenue!!!! Sorry I couldn`t resist.


I posted this before reading the details about him. I did not realize he served his country and paid the ultimate price.Sorry if my little attempt at humor offended anyone or his memory it was not my intent.

[tbob]

I respect and admire Eddie Grant but the wounded and deceased veterans of world wars should go in on their baseball merit, like Warren Spahn.

[Chris-Counts]

David, I'll bet it's the same image. By the way, if anybody would like to read more about Eddie Grant, you can look up a page I created on Facebook, "Remembering Eddie Grant."

[T2069bk]

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/histor...tml?c=y&page=1