Jack Coombs
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United StatesLived 1882 to 1957 · aged 74John Wesley Coombs, nicknamed "Colby Jack" after his alma mater, was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1906-14), Brooklyn Robins (1915-18), and Detroit Tigers (1920).
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![The four stars of the world champion Philadelphia Athletics - Chief Bender, Cy Morgan, Jack Coombs, and Rube Oldring - were featured in the Thanhouser Company film, The Baseball Bug (1911)[10]](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/24/Moving_Picture_News_%281911%29_%281911%29_%2814801801473%29.jpg/1280px-Moving_Picture_News_%281911%29_%281911%29_%2814801801473%29.jpg)
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John Wesley Coombs, nicknamed "Colby Jack" after his alma mater, was an American professional baseball player. He played in Major League Baseball as a pitcher for the Philadelphia Athletics (1906-14), Brooklyn Robins (1915-18), and Detroit Tigers (1920). In 1910, Coombs won 31 games during the regular season and three games in the World Series to lead the Athletics to the championship. A two-way player, he also occasionally played as an outfielder.
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