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Show DOPE ABOUT PITCHER ELLER "Shine-Ball" Artist ls Native of Mun-cie, Mun-cie, lnd., and Began Playing Play-ing in 1913. Horace A. Eller, the "shine-ball" pitcher, was born at Muncie, lnd., July 5, 1S94. He began playing baseball with the Champaign, 111., club in 1913. The next spring he went to Danville, 111., and from there to Moline, 111., where he played two years. In 1916 Hod Eller. ' he went to Chicago White Sox on trial, but was returned to Moline late in April. He joined the army on the Mexican border, was reinstated in baseball in September, and drafted by Cincinnati. Last May he pitched a no-hit game against the Cardinals. |