Show Broke roe Into o Game ame as Holdout o ou W. W the g a rt g ht ha odes who pitched R a GEORGE three three hit hit coat ot of whitewash for his victory In the big hl leagues Is the one ball balt player pla-er known In history who started his career In organized ed baseball as a holdout That Is something that never happened before or since Listen to his story When I was In my sophomore year at Swarthmore I received nn an offer to pitch for the Baltimore Orioles At the time I was more Interested In finishing my collel colleg I work vork and never of playing I ball balt professionally When I was vms wasn n graduated they came after oCter me ogain But Dut I fought them off orr and took a job Joh up In Newark I rev delved a pretty good salary and nn 1 P pitched Itched a couple of games a week re-I re 1 k S for semI pro teams that brought me meIn mel meS S In SiO 50 and at a crack Still l x the thc Orioles kept after me all that ry summer and pestered me the lowing spring Finally that HUlt nr Jack Dunn came u up to see me 1 told him what I was wa making f hy just pitching on the side Ide find and holding down a regular Job We talked talle for Quite n a while and I 1 thought to myself Iii fix this H fell fellow 0 lIe had told me to j my salary So I figured out a sun George Earnshaw that I thou thought ht would send hint hack back to Baltimore talking to himself him self J I told him Id I'd Join the Orioles for or a 8 salary of a 0 month smokes he roared In that falsetto voce e of his more than I 1 pay an anybody body on the team Youre You're asking for or a major league sai sallI iry and you OU hn haven't pitched a 8 game yet ct l' l I did have him v talking to hImself Dunn Dunnie Ie thought It over oyer for a while and then he gave e me n jolt that ki me oft off my pins He sold said All right Ill I'll JO go broke payIng you that tha dough but Ive I've been tr ln to hook you yuu for IWo years and now Ive Ie got you Ill I'll pay you OU SHOO a month and well we'll fill the contract out right now Then Ill I'll go with you while you OU tell those people you ou are quitting work to play The first semI game that George Barnshaw ever pItched was for the ge Clothier team of und and was agaInst an star nV-star collection ot of big leaguers managed etl byEarl hJ by Earl Mack It was during the days following the Work ork ur or Fight edict Issued hy by Washington during the war var George US only seventeen se n years old oil but lie he easily vanquished the bIg lea leaguers 8 |