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Birth Name: Earle Bryan Combs
Born: 14 May 1899 Died: 21 July 1976
Country of origin: 
United States
Height: 6' 0"
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American professional baseball player who played his entire career for the New York Yankees (1924–1935). Combs (pronunciation: \KOOMBZ\) batted leadoff and played center field on the Yankees' fabled 1927 team (often referred to as Murderers' Row). 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.
Combs led the league in triples three times and was among the top ten in the category in several other seasons. He suffered a fractured skull and other injuries from a crash into an outfield wall in 1934,
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