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Show DODE PASKERT DROPS BACK TO THE MINORS Was Oldest Player in Major Leagues When Retired. Hia First and Last Engagement In Fast Company Was With Cincinnati Cincin-nati Reds Had Played With Phillies and Cubs. Dode Paskert, distinctive among other things for the fact that he was the oldest player in active service in the major leagues, has gone back to the minors, whence he sprang In 1907. Eeleased outright by Cincinnati Dode - img'Jhm: i ' Dod& r-askcit. signed with the Kansas City club of tl.H? American assoclction. Furthermore, Further-more, according to Pode himself, he received a bonus of $1,500 for signing, and his contract calls for a higher salary sal-ary than he drew in Cincinnati. Paskert Pas-kert is forty years old and first broke into professional baseball with the Dayton club of the Central league in 11104. His first mrjor league engagement engage-ment was with Hie Reds. Between his first and last engagements In fast company he was with the Philadelphia and Chicago clubs. |