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Show -T 111 'i ii - -i - i f -i r i i - In "GERMANY" SGHAEFER B A HEAL VETERAN; B -fTCRMAy SCHAEFER, formerly of I tho Dotrolt Tigers and now of the H tVashingtons. 1b tho father of the IH Amorlcan league. There aro other fa- IH them of courso. Charlie Sommers. H owner of the Cleveland club, and Byror. B. Johnson, president of tho league, were tho big men at the start and are IH gonerally crodltcd with the birth of the IH organization, as Sommers furnished IH tho "cush" and Johnson tho "puoh." Tli at combination made tho learuo possible, but among players Schaefer IH can claim to bo the real veteran of tho l 22fppujj. IB ( t 1 9SZ ' ' -V e 11' Vv IH x?s "-' v'f H "GERMANY" SCHAEFER. B organization. O'Leary, who was re- IH ccntly released by tho Tigers, could lay IH claim to the titlo Jointly with Schaefer, fM but he Is now out of the league. IH In 1900 tho American leaguo con- IH slstcd of Chicago, Cleveland, MInno- IB npolls, Milwaukee, Indianapolis, Buffa- H lo, Detroit and Kansas City. H Schaefer Joined tho Kansas City H team in that year. "Schacf" played for H Colorado Springs in 1901, with the H Cub3 in 1902, Mllwaukco in 1903 and M 1904. The following year Detroit so- H cured Schaefer. ' H Thero aro othor players who ma? H havo served more years consecutively IH in the league than Schaefer, but thero H Is nono who entered tho Amorlcan H league as early as "Germany" did. H |