On 3/1/2012 6:57 PM, Cindy Walcott wrote: > My grandfather Glenn Rublee(b. 1897 Berkshire, VT)always said he played for > the Boston Red Sox for a season, but we have never been able to turn up any > documentation on that. > > Cindy Walcott Cindy: I did a search for "Rubl*" on the Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org) and got only one hit. William Arthur "Art" Ruble, born in Tennessee in 1903. Grandpa may have played for a Red Sox minor league team, no minor feat that. He may have played under an assumed name, in an era when baseball was not always seen in a favorable light. And it may have been just ... a story. I have a few of those too. Darrell

My father was born named Norman Gordon, and the lady who would become his kindergarten teacher lived next door in Barre. When he entered kindergarten she ask him his name - he replied "Cy Young." That would have been about 1906. He kept that name until the army when they dropped the Young. He was always Cy Gordon to everyone (except his father!) until his passing in 1981. And always a Boston Red Sox fan! Alice Gordon -----Original Message----- From: vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com [mailto:vermont-bounces@rootsweb.com] On Behalf Of Darrell A. Martin Sent: Thursday, March 01, 2012 6:23 PM To: vermont@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [VERMONT] baseball fever On 3/1/2012 6:57 PM, Cindy Walcott wrote: > My grandfather Glenn Rublee(b. 1897 Berkshire, VT)always said he > played for the Boston Red Sox for a season, but we have never been > able to turn up any documentation on that. > > Cindy Walcott Cindy: I did a search for "Rubl*" on the Society for American Baseball Research (sabr.org) and got only one hit. William Arthur "Art" Ruble, born in Tennessee in 1903. Grandpa may have played for a Red Sox minor league team, no minor feat that. He may have played under an assumed name, in an era when baseball was not always seen in a favorable light. And it may have been just ... a story. I have a few of those too. Darrell *************************************** List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

It's a fun story! So plausible. He went to college in Boston. He contracted polio and always said he had to be transported back to VT in a cattle car. That puzzled me because I assume there were sleeping cars at that time,let's say 1913. I wondered if fear of contagion was the issue. Cindy Walcott On Mar 1, 2012, at 8:22 PM, "Darrell A. Martin" <darrellm@sprynet.com> wrote: > On 3/1/2012 6:57 PM, Cindy Walcott wrote: >> My grandfather Glenn Rublee(b. 1897 Berkshire, VT)always said he played for >> the Boston Red Sox for a season, but we have never been able to turn up any >> documentation on that. >> >> Cindy Walcott > > Cindy: > > I did a search for "Rubl*" on the Society for American Baseball Research > (sabr.org) and got only one hit. William Arthur "Art" Ruble, born in > Tennessee in 1903. > > Grandpa may have played for a Red Sox minor league team, no minor feat > that. He may have played under an assumed name, in an era when baseball > was not always seen in a favorable light. > > And it may have been just ... a story. I have a few of those too. > > Darrell > > > > *************************************** > List Guidelines: http://home.sprynet.com/~darrellm/list_rules.htm > Visit the Gateway to Vermont Web Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~vermont/ > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to VERMONT-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message