Arlington High School

Carl Sumner “Lefty”

Carl Sumner (American Major League Baseball player) is in the 1928 yearbook of Arlington High School, Arlington, Massachusetts. This page shows the portrait as printed, with classmates and what the book says.

Class of 1928

Before they were famous

Carl Sumner American Major League Baseball player

Carl Sumner was an American Major League Baseball player. He played 16 games for the Boston Red Sox during the 1928 season. He was nicknamed 'Lefty'. He was a member of the Arlington High School class of 1928.

Born: September 28, 1908, Cambridge
Died: 1999
Age in this yearbook: about 20
In the yearbook as: Carl Sumner, Arlington High School, class of 1928

How we know this is the same person: Arlington High, born 1908; the yearbook lists him on the baseball team, nicknamed 'Lefty'. Summary written from the Wikipedia article (text under CC BY-SA 4.0).

157 in the class of 1928 · 15 more named Sumner

Full name: Carl Sumner
Known as: Lefty
Lived at: 15-A Grove Street, Arlington, Massachusetts
School: Arlington High School
Graduated: Class of 1928

Also searched as: Lefty Sumner; Sumner, Carl.

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Group photos 5
Clubs & teams 145
Same surname 10
Classmates 156

In context

Going through the Arlington High School class of 1928 from A to Z by surname, Carl is the 138th of 157 names on this site. Carl is printed on page 49 of the scan, in the last third of the 14-to-54 run of portrait pages. In the Arlington High School class of 1928, 7 entries mention “Football”; Carl's is one of them. Names on this site: 157 for the class of 1928, compared with 135 for 1927 and 133 for 1929.

On the same scan page	Everett Stratton, Beryl Sullivan, Mary Sullivan
Same club	Vice-President of the Student Council: 35 other classmates
Same club	Football: 6 other classmates

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What the yearbook said

The world has not his like; There be worse and there be better, But there's no other just like him.

The class of 1928

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Others named Sumner

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Source

Arlington High School yearbook, 1928, page 49. View the original scan at the Internet Archive (item arlingtonhighsch1928arli).

Published 1928, and therefore in the public domain in the United States. Scan courtesy of Robbins Memorial Library / Boston Public Library via the Internet Archive.

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