Who is the player and does he have a card?

[T206Collector]

I'm going to guess that this was a marketing expression used by the sand dredging company. Sand dredgers use long metal devices that I believe look like slides. If a player was shown, he was probably meant to be Ty Cobb.

[n5gwu]

That makes sense when you put it that way.
Thanks for your insight and I'll put my mind to rest.

[Steve D]

I would guess that T206collector's idea is correct.

I just looked on baseball-reference.com, and the only MLers who went to high school in Mableton, GA are Sam Fuller and Kenneth Straus (Whitefield Academy), and Chuck James (Mableton Christian Academy).

They don't list anyone having gone to Pebblebrook High School.


Steve

[n5gwu]

They wouldn't have gone to Pebblebrook High School, it only opened in 1964 and I was in the 2nd graduating class in 1968. So it was a pretty new school, just happened to be built across the street from the sand dredging place.

Thanks for all the help on this as it has itched my mind for many years and I just couldn't make sense of it. Now I wish I could find and have the old billboard although it was full size so the wife wouldn't let me put it anywhere except behind the shop.