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Show BUYING HURLERS IS LOTTERY Grover Cleveland Alexander, Star of National League, Cost $500 O'Toole $22,500. In the season of 1910 Grover Cleveland Cleve-land Alexander, the star pitcher of the Philadelphia Nationals, was drafted from the Syracuse club of the New Y'ork State league, the management of the Phillies paying the sum of $500 for him. In the following season the Pittsburgh Pitts-burgh club paid the large sum of $22,500 for the release of one Marty O'Toole, who was pitching baseball in a most wonderful manner for the St. Paul club of the American Association. Alexander proved a real gem ; O'Toole after a short career, fell by the wayside, which goes to prove that buying baseball pitchers is a lottery. |