Show your Eddie Grant Cards

[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

[tbob]

Thanks Tim, I think the time spent reading that article was well worth it. I have always been fascinated with the era of World War One, not only because of the War but because of the era itself. Perhaps that's why I love collecting cards from 1909-1919.
One other note on World War One and how the times have changed, some for the worse, some for the better, on the last day of the War, knowing that the Armistice was about to be signed at 11:00 a.m., allied officers sent their men in to bloody combat that morning to secure land which they would have been able to have walked in to that afternoon. The appalling slaughter was horrendous. Some officers refused to order their men in and were courtmartialed and faced possible execution. General John Pershing and his subordinates ordered the men in and more soldiers were killed on that last morning than the total amount of men killed during the D-Day invasion in World War II. Unbelieveable insanity. When relatives of the soldiers back home slowly but inexorably found out, many Congressmen wanted to investiagte the matter and condemn Pershing but politics prevailed. Doesn't it always? How do you condemn men who have already had mounments and statues built in their honor. Thank God some things have changed for the better and insane bloodbaths like the one on the morning of the Armistice may never happen again.
Something to reflect on on Memorial Day.

[Volod]

tbob: Thanks for the anecdote, but I for one am not optimistic that similar events are not currently, or will not in the future, take place. Anyone who's ever been in the military - combat or not - knows why these things happen, and it's not by error or oversight on the part of megalomaniacal officers.