Career
Combs" active career spanned ten seasons (1941. 1946–1954). He was a backup shortstop in Major League Baseball who played between 1947 and 1952 for the Boston Red Sox (1947. 1949-1950), Washington Senators (1950) and Cleveland Indians (1951-1952).
Combs batted left-handed and threw right-handed.
He stood 6 feet (18 m) tall and weighed 172 pounds (78 kg). He was born in Los Angeles, and attended the University of Southern California.
In a five-season MLB career, Combs was a.202 hitter (73-for-361) with two home runs and 25 Reserve Bank of India in 140 games played, including 45 runs, six doubles and one triple. Thereafter, he was a longtime scout for multiple Major League organizations, and spent one season, 1975, as a coach on the staff of the Texas Rangers.
Combs died in Riverside, California, at the age of 61.
