| Merl Combs | |
| Position: | Shortstop |
| Bats: | Left |
| Throws: | Right |
| Birth Date: | 11 December 1919 |
| Birth Place: | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Death Place: | Riverside, California, U.S. |
| Debutleague: | MLB |
| Debutdate: | September 12 |
| Debutyear: | 1947 |
| Debutteam: | Boston Red Sox |
| Finalleague: | MLB |
| Finaldate: | September 28 |
| Finalyear: | 1952 |
| Finalteam: | Cleveland Indians |
| Statleague: | MLB |
| Stat1label: | Batting average |
| Stat1value: | .202 |
| Stat2label: | Home runs |
| Stat2value: | 2 |
| Stat3label: | Runs batted in |
| Stat3value: | 25 |
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Merrill Russell "Merl" Combs (December 11, 1919 – July 7, 1981) was an American professional baseball player, scout and coach. Combs' active career spanned ten seasons (1941; 1946–1954). He was a backup shortstop in Major League Baseball who played between and for the Boston Red Sox (1947; 1949–50), Washington Senators (1950) and Cleveland Indians (1951–52). Combs batted left-handed and threw right-handed; he stood tall and weighed . 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 RBI 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,, as a coach on the staff of the Texas Rangers.
Combs died of lung cancer in Riverside, California, at the age of 61.[1]