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Originally Posted by hpkatz26
Why not contact the Plank family member(s) that still live in Gettysburg to see if they know anything about one of the most famous baseball cards featuring their relative? Just a thought. Howard
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Howard
This thread regarding my original Plank Theory is 14 years old. Since then, I have revised my theory based on more research regarding Plank.
Furthermore, this response of Connie Mack to a Philadelphia sports writer in 1910 clues us in....... "
The secret of Plank's pitching is no secret
at all. It is a good strong arm, a powerful constitution to back it, and neither drinks, smokes, chews tobacco, nor swears...... "
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Eddie Plank was certainly an anti-tobacco guy. Most likely, he informed the American Tobacco Co. that he did not want his image portrayed on
Tobacco cards. Being the low-keyed guy that he was, he did not hype it up like Wagner did. Therefore, American Litho. stopped issuing Plank.
**..... Connie Mack, by Norman Macht
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