Show I Baseball Facts Worth Knowing Tho Tire lar largest est sum of ot a advance money over ever paid at ono one time tip imp to and In Including In- In eluding 1896 was handed fon Tony at Toledo in lit November Xo 1881 b by A. A S. S Stern of tho tIme Cincinnati team lIam hen when ho paid 20 2000 X signed a contract calling for or Adrian C C. Anson played his Iris first professional professional pro pro- h to for for- I 65 a month Charlie k key received th the same samo sum when hen he ire broke c Into tho the game in 1St 1882 The last year Comiskey kp played pla-NI with Louisville he ire received t 1000 a month at that time the limo largest salar salary c ever paid lall to a player The Tue catchers catcher's mitt was first used In 1875 b by William o of the thc Fall Pall River team tram Ills hands became sore Gore and to protect them he lie purchased a pair l of or bricklayers bricklayers' Ir rs cut off orr- the tho fingers fins and used them against II a T Tying who caught for Harvard Haard took to the tire III idea en Buck Ruck Fwing was tho lie first catcher to use tho big mitt milt Catchier Catcher Tyng Inel in invented In- In el vented te ted 1 the limo ca catchers catcher's mask masl v The Olympic club clu Philadelphia played a 0 sort ort of ot game same of or ball In On Juno IS it Cincinnati hit Rhoades I Louisville pitcher pile for two thirty hits for fora a total of four tour bases breaking all league records s The game recalled the game Ilme of or when time the Athletics scored twenty live Ironic homo runs against the National Nationals Na Xa- of or Jersey e City also tIre the game a n year later when tire the of ot Morrl l- l ana cna made an even base bas lilts hils using the old rubber bAil To Joe Start th tire the veteran tran first baseman played for or t twenty eight con consecutive Iu tho years He nl played with the th Enterprise club duh of Brooklyn In lii IS and hl his last professional professional pro pro- fn engagement o was Washington Washing Washing- ton In lii 1 S The fire record of Ir nineteen consecutive c on victories c established h by Pitcher Pilcher McCormick mick has never been beaten t n. n What hat makes tn It particularly hard for tOI forthe forthe the second baseman man is tire the fact that many I times lIme he hue is not ready for oi such a task not having lund had time limE to g get t thoroughly I warmed up before taking taking- up lip th tIre the unfinished unfit- unfit I hed work worle |