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Show I BIG TRIO IN 1900 SOLD FOR $15,000 y A war year, and $75,000 is ? 5 paid for two baseball players. ft Rather a far cry from the day ?? ? when the old Baltimore club sold John McGraw, Wilbert Rob- n H inson and Billy Keeler a great trio in those days to the St. Louis club for $15,000. At that time the deal was re- S garded as the last word in base- g ball extravagance. That same ? year 1900, with the reduction ? of the National league from a ? 12 to an 8-club circuit Pitts- 8 burgh gave $25,000 and five play- ers, one of whom was Jack 21 Chesbro, for 14 men ' of the Louisville club. ? |