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Show PLAYED IN SEVEN BIG LEAGUE CLUBS i Jack Doyle is not particularly proud of his batting record so far this spring, but he docs pride himself on the fact that he has played with more major league teams than any man In thc business. bus-iness. "Gleason of thc Philadelphia team runs me a pretty close second in this respect," said Doyle before the Phillies left town, "but on the whole 1 think I have drawn salary from more major league clubs than any player that ever wore a uniform. It seems an age since the Cleveland club rescued me from the minors and used me as a backstop. back-stop. After that I became a sort of baseball wanderer, playing a season or two hore and perhaps a half season there, but always bobbing up in fast company when I had the can tied to me by one club. Some of the cities In which I played have seen me more than once, and they always seem glad to have me back there. I have none of thc scruples of Phil O'Neill, who. I sec. declares de-clares that he would never want to play 1 In a city again from which he had been released. "I played with the New York Nationals Nation-als two or three times I forget which and was manager of the team on scv- , oral occasions. I "That would not prevent me accepting accept-ing another engagement there, provided It was offered me and I was free to sign with them. The several engagements that I played in New York arc only a portion of my career In the big leagues. I helped win a pennant for Baltimore; was a member of the Brooklyn team on two occasions: was field captain of the Chlcaos; played with Washington when that city was In the National fleague, and also filled an engagement there with thc more recent American league club. "This Is my first engagement with Philadelphia and I hope to remain with the Quakers for some time. Playing In seven different big league cities, some of them twice or three times, is a record which, I believes has never been equaled by any player In thc history of thc game." |