Salt Lake Telegram | 1918-01-06 | Page 12 | Buying Ball Players is Expensive Pastime

BUYING BALL PlAYERS PlAYERS' V I IS EXPENSIVE PASTIME Buying ball players has proved an expensive expensive expensive ex ex- pensive proposition for tor some of ot the major major major ma ma- jor league managers in the last ten years Note the prices paid for some of ot these stars Grover Cleveland Alexander and William William William Wil Wil- liam Killifer Philadelphia Nationals bought by Chicago Cubs 1917 Tris Speaker Boston Red Sox bought by Cleveland Indians 1916 price said to have been over Eddie Collins Philadelphia Athletics bought by the Chicago White Sox Sex 1915 Frank Baker Philadelphia Athletics bought by New York Yankees 1916 Joe Tinker Cincinnati Reds bought by the Brooklyn Robins 1913 never re reported reported reported re- re ported Marty l St. St Paul American as asI association association as- as bought by Pittsburg Pirates I 1912 Larry Chappelle Milwaukee American association bought by Chicago White I Sox 1913 Lefty Russell lI Baltimore International league teague bought by Philadelphia Athletics 1913 12 S Fritz Maisel sel Baltimore International league bought by New York Yankees 1913 Rube Marquard Indianapolis American AmerIcan American Amer Amer- ican association bought by New York Giants 1908 1905 Cy Seymour Cincinnati Reds bought by New York Giants Spike Shannon St. St Louis Cardinals bought by New York York Giants