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Show :; POOR RECOMMENDATION I , , f , , ! , "Recommendations of ball , , ' players amount to a whole lot, ' . . not," muses the Veteran Frank , , ; J Bancroft of the Cincinnati Reds. ' J . "Yea, ho ! Long, long ago, I had , , J to get a first baseman for the ' ' club I was managing. The one " I chose, on the recommenda- ' tion of all the wise ones, lasted ' I half a season and, to get him, I turned down a fellow whom the ! ! critics said would never do. The ', ' ' one I turned down was Dan I ! Brouthers, that was all !" ', ', nimimittiMMiMiinI |