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Old 01-26-2024, 11:32 AM
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A different pickup for me but a meaningful one. Thank you to the Net54 members who were able to help me find this card.

I've done alot of research on Eddie Grant over the years and I'm sure many of you know his story. Attached is his T205 along with a 77th Division (Statue of Liberty Division) shoulder patch, to which he was assigned after becoming one of the first men to enlist in 1917, two years after his retirement from baseball. Grant made the ultimate sacrifice trying to rescue The Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest. He was one of three former major leaguers to die in battle in WW1. His story is worth a read.

I'll be visiting the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France in June for a WW memorial tour, and plan on leaving these two on his headstone.

More about Captain Edward Grant:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...r-i-180728112/

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/eddie-grant/
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Old 01-26-2024, 12:56 PM
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I'll be visiting the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France in June for a WW memorial tour, and plan on leaving these two on his headstone.
That's a nice touch!
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Old 01-26-2024, 02:14 PM
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A different pickup for me but a meaningful one. Thank you to the Net54 members who were able to help me find this card.

I've done alot of research on Eddie Grant over the years and I'm sure many of you know his story. Attached is his T205 along with a 77th Division (Statue of Liberty Division) shoulder patch, to which he was assigned after becoming one of the first men to enlist in 1917, two years after his retirement from baseball. Grant made the ultimate sacrifice trying to rescue The Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest. He was one of three former major leaguers to die in battle in WW1. His story is worth a read.

I'll be visiting the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France in June for a WW memorial tour, and plan on leaving these two on his headstone.

More about Captain Edward Grant:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...r-i-180728112/

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/eddie-grant/
great story and well done.
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Old 01-27-2024, 10:02 PM
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Here is Capt Grant's entry in the Roll of Honor from the official history of the division published soon after the war.




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A different pickup for me but a meaningful one. Thank you to the Net54 members who were able to help me find this card.

I've done alot of research on Eddie Grant over the years and I'm sure many of you know his story. Attached is his T205 along with a 77th Division (Statue of Liberty Division) shoulder patch, to which he was assigned after becoming one of the first men to enlist in 1917, two years after his retirement from baseball. Grant made the ultimate sacrifice trying to rescue The Lost Battalion in the Argonne Forest. He was one of three former major leaguers to die in battle in WW1. His story is worth a read.

I'll be visiting the Meuse-Argonne Cemetery in Romagne, France in June for a WW memorial tour, and plan on leaving these two on his headstone.

More about Captain Edward Grant:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/histo...r-i-180728112/

https://sabr.org/bioproj/person/eddie-grant/
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Old 01-29-2024, 07:30 PM
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Beyond thrilled for this pickup. Been chasing a "well loved" Radbourn example for a long time. Its #377-3.


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Old 01-29-2024, 08:18 PM
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I was the seller, happy the card went to a member here who enjoys it


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Old 01-30-2024, 07:29 AM
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Thrilled to snag this Peaches Graham T206 from Alberta Canada.

Card missing the standard red banding on the uniform!

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