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Show UMP: ' FINNEY WAS ONCE SOLD FOR $4.60 "Umpire Finnpy of the Coast league was once sold for the staggering sum of M.LiO. What's more, Finney is game enough to tell the story on himself. He was behind the bat for Fort Scott in the Kansas league in 190G. The club hod not beer, given sufficient support and it was decided de-cided to disband It. The manager of the team went down to Coffeyvllle, now fa- i mous as Walter Johnson'a home. Tbe Coffeyvllle magnate made a daring proposal pro-posal to the Fort Scott impresario. He offered to pay the Fort Scott luminary the price of his railway fare for a single choice of the Fort Scott players. He chose Finney. Fin-ney. The ticket came to S4.60. |