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WHAT ANSON WAS PAID
Salaries of 25 Years Ago Are
Shown by Contracts.
"Cap's" Stipend Wa8 $2,700 and of
This Amount $700 Was for Acting
aa Manager of Famous Old
White Stocking Team.
Baseball managers or today aio Ban.
to receive fabulous huiiih John Mc
Oraw of Now York 1b reported to have
mgned for ffVe yearn at a salary of
$:?0,000 a year Frank Chance, Connio
Mack and Fred Clarke are credited
with having Blgned for moi e than $l.r,
000 What a difference from the year ot
1SS8! Leaders in those days got what
the major league clubs pay the re
cruits in the present days of baseball.
That la haidly creditable, but It is so
"I'll bet Cap. Anson received a big
Balary," said an enthusiast. "I would
like to wager he was given as much as
most managers are getting today IIo
was a ball player and could surely de
mand it."
The fan who Bpoko thus spoke in
ignorance of the salaries of 25 years
ago, compared with thoso of today,
writes OBcar C. Relchow In the Chi
cago News. He did not stop to think
that It was impossible to pay such
Bums bb the commanders are getting
today because the game was in its in
fancy and if a few thousand persona
saw a game the crowd was considered
tremendous All he thought about was
the reputation Anson had of being a
wonderful batter Anson was a re
markable hitter, probably onq of the
best the game ever has had. yet he re
ceived a Hinull umount for his effort a
und services
R. E. Smith is the possessor of a
contract Anson signed with the old
Chicago White Stockings in 1888 He
bIro possesses documents Blgned by
Charles A Comlskey, N. Fred Pfeffer
and Edward N Williamson when they
consented to play In the Brotherhood
league
Years ago the firm of A G. Spalding
& Bros In Chicago cleaned out one of
itB departments and threw Into tho
alley considerable refuse such as pa-
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Cap. Anson
pers, books and wortniess documents
Smith, who was emplojed there at the
time, knew that the heap contained in
teresting baseball data and proceeded
to rummage through the pile. In the
clump were the aforementioned con
tracts, which he quickly fished out
and Btored in his collection of baseball
Information.
Perhaps It never has been told to
the public what Anson received as
manager of the Chicago White Stock
ings in the year 1888 The amount
which is related hero will settle a lot
of arguments When he attached hl
signature to a document In 1888 he did
bo for a sum of $2,000. That was as
a player Seven hundred dollars was
added for acting as captain and man
ager That Is surprising when It is
considered that in 1887, the year be
fore, Anson finished the year with a
batting aveiage of 121.
Salaries began to go up when tho
Brotherhood league was organized
The contracts for that organization
were given when Charles A ComiBkey,
N. Fred Pfeffer and Edward Willlam
Bon jumped the old National league
Anson was faithful to the old organiza
tion and refuBed to join tho outlaws.
Along with Anson's contract Smith
unearthed contracts of Comlskey,
Pfeffer and Williamson, which they
had signed for the Brotherhood
league The present owner of tho
White Sox then was regarded as tho
dean of fielding first basemen, al
though he was not the batter that An
son was Yet Comlskey when he
jumped demanded a big salary and
Higned his contract containing figures
of $7,000 with John Addison, who was
resident of the club In 1890
Fan at Home
"The dinner is stone cold," growled
the basehnll fan
"I time the dinner for nine innings,"
aid the wlto firmly "I can't flgurti
'ii these I Miming guinea "--Kuiidux
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