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Show BIG MONEY PAID FOR F. BRICKELL Record Price Paid for Young-Wichita Young-Wichita Player. The sale of Freddy Rrickell, nineteen-year-old Wichita outfielder, to the Pittsburgh Pirates marked the first player dei.l of the season for the Wichita tnil-enders, and. incidentally. incident-ally. It pmbably sets a new record price paid for , a. Western league player. The deal was for cash, and two players to be delivered to the Izxies not later than April 15, 3927. The cf.sh consideration was not given out, but it was admitted that the deal tigured in the neighborhood of $li,000, all told. Certainly this sets a record of top price for a youngster who only last year .was playing on the sand lots, and whose professional experience previous to the year of his sale to tlie world's champions was limited to r.n unsuccessful trial with the Decatur De-catur Three-1 league team. When the Wichita club reported for training last spring, P.rickell asked for a trial. He was known locally as a high school athlete of more than average ability, f.nd as a pretty good baseball player. Little attention was paid to hlin when lie first showed up at Island Park, but the second day out his hitting attracted at-tracted Boss Isbell. The next day he asked Mr.nager Gregory lo send the youngster to the outfield that he might see how he handled himself there. That night, Freddie was signed to a Wichita contract. When the season sea-son opened, he sat on the bench for a day or two, but once he broke into the lineup he was there to stay. Hardly a day passed that he did not distinguish himself either afield or at bat, and at once became the favorite r.nrl a drawing card. Crlckell's first bid for athletic prominence came as a member of a local high school football team. He also plays basket ball and can do 100 yards at ten-second speed. |