Talk:Eddie Stack

I believe that this Eddie Stack is the same "Mr. Stack" I had as a 6th Grade teacher in 1956-57 at Volta School on Chicago's Northwest Side. In any case, the Mr. Stack I remember would have been about the right age. He was tall and lanky and often had caughing spells. He also was capable of throwing erasers at unruly boy students. He never talked much about baseball except for one time I remember. It was duing the 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers-N.Y. Yankees World Series, which he had us listening to on the radio in his classroom. It was a close game and he predicted that Jackie Robinson would get a game-winning hit, which he did. It was then that he told several of us that he'd once played for the Cubs.

Can anyone confirm that the baseball player Eddie Stack did indeed later become a grade school teacher in Chicago? Would anyone have a picture of him that I could compare with my 6th Grade class picture?

Mort Sosna ms25@cornell.edu

Literature about Eddie Stack

If Eddie Stack is the same as Eddie "Smoke" Stack, a book or article was written about him. See Eddie "Smoke" Stack by Schmidt, Ray. Information appeared in the Book Section in The National Pastime -- p. 121, 4 page(s), published by The Society for American Baseball Research, 1997 (Vol. 17). One reference at baseballlibrary.com refers to him as Eddie "Smoke" Stack. - Randy 22:30 22 December 2006 (EST)

Eddie Stack baseball card

Here is his baseball card - Eddie Stack baseball card. - Randy 22:34 22 December 2006 (EST)

Baseball card checked against class picture

Here is more from Mort -

"Thanks so much for the reference to the Eddie Stack baseball card. I've checked it against my class picture and the resemblance to the tall elderly gentleman in the photograph is pretty uncanny. My Mr. Stack is indeed the same Eddie Stack. Poor Eddie! In 1956 he would have 69 years old, and there he is the sole teacher of a class of 35 kids. I'm sure he must have loved it when one of his professionally hurled erasers (who knew?) found their target."

- Randy 23:27 27 December 2006 (EST)