Jack Coombs rose to deadball-era stardom as the ace of Connie
Mack's Athletics, winners of back-to-back world championships in
1910 and 1911. One of few players of his day to have graduated from
college, Coombs debuted for the Athletics in 1906, fresh from Colby
College, and found success early. Within a few years, he was one of
the best and best-known pitchers in baseball, leading the majors in
victories.
But then in 1913 Coombs contracted typhoid fever, a disease
that cost the right-hander two seasons at the peak of his career.
And while he battled his way back to baseball, pitching well in his
comeback season of 1915 and then leading the Brooklyn Robins to the
World Series in 1916, Coombs was never again the dominant pitcher
he had been. Coombs went on to a long and successful career as a
college coach for Duke University, and he would write one of the
most highly regarded instructional books on baseball ever
published.
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