About Earle Combs
Earle Bryan Combs was an American professional baseball player who played his entire career for the New York Yankees (1924–1935). Combs batted leadoff and played center field on the Yankees' fabled 1927 team. He is one of six players on that team who have been inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame; the other five are Waite Hoyt, Herb Pennock, Tony Lazzeri, Lou Gehrig and Babe Ruth. In his first year at Eastern, Combs put on a stellar performance in a faculty-student baseball game and was encouraged to join the school team by Dr. In 1924, the New York Yankees won a spirited bidding war and bought Combs' contract for $50,000 ($939,320 in current dollar terms). Among all players who played a thousand games in the first fifty years of the 20th century, Combs and his.325 career batting average was 23rd best. He also set the Yankees' team record for most triples in a season (23 in 1927).
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