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Show : : : -: -: -: -5. -: .;. : -t- : : : : -: : -: ; : : : I Speaker Originally Sold for $800 I . "IKKSlIiKNT Doak Roberts, of the Texas league, revealed some J interesting figures recently showing how the cost of ball players . had soared in recent years. Huberts jutted down the sale price of ! 5 2G players lie had tossed to the major leagues in u -0-year period before the high finance era set in. Here are some of the recognized stai's he .. f . a f L ' r . - . . ' i I 1 5" i- ' M " 1 : " ' 1 t . ' s peddled and the prices the majors paid v tor them. And as you read compare the sale price to those on the tickets that went with Babe limb's disposal to the : anks, the Hornsby deal and others. ": -Nig Clarke, famous old-time catcher, : went to Cleveland for $AM). Pitcher Dude Criss brought Roberts -TuO from St. Louis Crowns. The Car- dmals paid him S5H0 for Catcher Charley Moran. George Whiteman, momentarily a world's series star with the Ked Sox, ; brought $T.",0. Tris Speaker went to the Red Sox for !?S00. Jim Dunn, at the time owner of the Indians, paid the Sox $5."),000 for Speaker in 191G. : And Dill fvillefer brought him but Sl,2o0. I'itcber George Poster, a member of , . the famous old lied Sox machine, netted Trls sPsaker- Roberts $2,500. These sales, of course, came iater. Slim Harris, still seeking his place in the ball of fame, cost the Athletics S2,r:00. Connie Mack paid the same for Glenn Myatt, now with Cleveland. For the total 26 players Doak Roberts received less than a single : untried star of fair magnitude br'ng in these days of fancy prices. |