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Old 07-09-2009, 09:14 AM
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Default Uecker and Marquard

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.

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