Show COST OF BASEBALL IS HIGH owner of brooklyn team compares traveling expenses of present time with former years charles Cliar leg it 11 ebbons of the brooklyn national league base baseball ball team comparing traveling expenses of former years with those now in effect bays baya in the old days 20 or 30 years ago I 1 could take my club on a visit to tho the four cities comprising the national league and get them home again at an outlay of in traveling and hotel d bills this of course does not include salaries wo we carried 18 in a party traveled at a special rate of one and one half cents cent per nille mile over tho the aco miles and usually got three deadhead tickets out of 18 the party would consist of six pitchers two catchers five infielders three outfielders the manager and one extra man our carfare amounted to approximately GOD and additional for slue sleepers pers and about for hotel bills for a 16 day trip tho the limit in the old days was per day in hotels now take tho the conditions today our team carries nine pitchers three catchers ivo alve infielders six outfielders a manager arid and assistant manager managar two trainers and two extra men this figures 29 wo we pay two cents a mile tor for every mile WP we cover and get no more deadhead tickets this brings tho the travel bill alone up to 1 1600 the amount of the entire bill in tho the old days sleeper accommodations add to the expense and hotel bills at 1 a day instead of 2 60 add 1029 1929 more all told tile the item of travel and meals totals for a single western trip at tho the present time |