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And it'll probably remain thirty
after the war, too.
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ALL RECORDS FOR PLAYER
EXCHANGES ARE SHATTERED
Almost Fifty Athletes Change
Uniforms as Result of Trades
and Sales in Big
Show.
Even i not another ball player is
sold or traded before the opening:-of
the season, this will go down in the
game's history as one of the big win
ters for deals in diamond talent and
reference is not intended to the
money envolved.
During no similar period of time
in the history of the National and
American leagues has the number of
player shifts equaled those consum
mated since the close of last year s
pennant races. Not only in the num
ber of players exchanged, but in the
magnitude of the deals have new rec
ords been established. Close to 50
players and more than $150,000 in
cash is the aggregate involved.
From a numerical standpoint the
two deals between the Red Sox and
Athletics head the list, ten players in
all being involved, six in the first
deal and four in the second, with
$60,000 in cash additional being paid
by Boston to Philadelphia in the
initial transaction.
Next conies the deal between the
New York Yankees and the St. Louis
Browns, in which seven players
changed uniforms, the Yankees giving
five in exchange for two and $15,
000 as a cash bonus besides. In ad
dition to this the Yankees and
Browns figured in another deal, a
three-cornered affair, in which the
Cincinnati Reds are involved, and in
which the Browns got a sixth player
from the Yankees.
In the National league, Phillies and
Cubs were the greatest traders, six
players changing clubs as a result
of two deals. Five players made
changes in the Brooklyn-Fittsburgh
deat- . , ,
There were several interlocking
deals, one being between Chicago,
Boston and New York in the Na
tional, one being between New York,
Philadelnhia and Detroit in the
American and one. between the
Browns, the Yankees and the Reds
s involved both leagues.
n Lisi of Winter'! Trades,
Beginning with the Alexander-Kili
lifer sale by the Phillies to the Cubs,
here is a list of changes made since
the winter season opened:
Alexander, from the Phillies to the
Cubs.
Killifer. from the Phillies to the
Cubs.
Paskert, from the Phillies to the
Cubs.
Williams, from the Cubs to the
Phillies. .
Dillhoefer, from the Cubs to the
Phillies.
Prendergast, from the Cubs to the
Phillies. . . .
Bush, from the Athletics to the itea
Sox.
Schang. from the Athletics to the
Red Sox.
Strunk. from the Athletics to the
Red Sox.
Greee. from the Red box to the
Athletics.
Doyle, from the Cubs to the Braves.
Wilson, from the Cubs to the
Braves.
Tyler, from tne Braves to the Cubs.
Kood. from the Red Sox to the
Athletics.
Lavan. from the Browns to the
Shotten, from the Browns to the
Senators.
Gallia, from Washington to the
Browns.
Dovle. from the Braves to the
Giants.
Barnes, from the Braves to the
Giants.
Herzog, from the Giants to the
Braves.
Stengel, from the Dodgers to the
Pirates.
Cutshaw, from the Dodgors to the
Pirates.
Mamaux, from the Pirates to the
Dodgers.
Grimes, from the Pirates to the
Dodgers.
Ward, from the Pirates to the Dod
gers. Mclnnis, from the Athletics to the
Red Sox.
Gardner, from the Red Sox to the
Athletics.
Walker, from the Red Sox to the
Athletics.
Cady, from the Red Sox to the
Athletics. ,
Pratt, from the Browns to the
Yankees.
Plank, from the Browns to the
Yankees.
Nunamaker, from the Yankees to
the Browns.
Maisel, from the Yankees to the
Browns.
Gedeon, from the Yankees to the
Browns:
Shocker, from the Yankees to the
Browns.
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Cullop, from the Yankees to the
Browns.
Henry, from Washington the Bos
ton Braves.
Groom, from Browns to Cleveland.
Bodie, from the Athletics to the
Yankees.
Burns, from the Tigers to the Ath
letics. Lee Magee, from the Browns to
the Reds.
Hendryx, from the Yankees to the
Browns.
Fall Teams of Traded Player.
From "traded players" one can pick
in each major league an entire team,
one that has quality enough to well
hold its own with the best in its com
pand testimony to the class of the
talent that has shifted uniforms.
What, for instance, can be said
against this team of American league
players who change club alleg;?nce:
First Base Mclnnis.
Second Base Pratt
Shortstop Lavan.
Third Base Maisel.
Outfield Strunk, Shotton, Wtker.
Catchers Schang, 'Thomas and
Nunamaker.
Pitchers Bush, Plank, Gallia, Cul
lop and Shocker.
Turning to the National there is
but one position lacking to maK up
a really high class team of players
who have shifted clubs. Counting Iiat
the Pirates may return Vic Saicr to
the Cubs, which seems likely, th one
gap would be filled arid the National
league could put this team of traded
players in the field:
Firse Base Saier.
Second Base Cutshaw."
Shortstop Herzog.
Third Base Ward.
Outfield Stengel, Paskert, Wil
liams. Catchers Killifer and Wilson.
Pitchers Alexander, Barnes, Ma
maux, Tyler and Grimes.
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Pittsburgh Shows Class.
The Pittsburgh Pirates may be a
rank ousider in base ball, but when
it comes to hockey and foot ball Pitts
burgh is a regular town.
Charley Weeghman's acquisition of
Bill Killifer for the Cubs emphasizes
the fact that for 15 years p;;st either
the Cubs or the White Sox have had
one of the most expertor one of the
greatest catchers of the game as a
mainspring in their team mechanism.
The Chicago clubs have excelled all
others in that department and for
many years each had the star in its
league and that condition exists at
present. The White Sox have Ray
Schalk, who is recognized as the pre
mier of them all and the Cubs have
Bill Killifer, who is superior to all
others in the National league.
On the West Side the fans swore
by Johnny Kling. It was always a
subject for argument between the fans
of the South Side and West Side
whether Billy Sullivan or Kling was
the better receiver. The latter was
credited with having the edge, but it
was so slight that there was hardly
any difference. Kling was a star and
the nien who played with him for so
many years declare he never had an
equal. x
Archer Succeeded Kling.
Associated on the Cub team with
KJing were Tat Moran and Jimmy
Archer. Moran did not stay many
years, but while he was a member of
the club he was looked upon as a man
of ability, known more for his intelli
gence than his mechanical skill. Ar
cher replaced Kling as the leading
receiver of the National league squad,
but he never gained the fame of his
predecessor. Yet he was regarded as
the greatest backstop in the game
until Ray Schalk sprung into promi
nence on the South Side and took
that distinction away from him.
Schalk's sudden leap to fame as an
efficient catcher was not a flash in the
pan. Real talent had asserted itself.
It has remained and within the last
few years he has been selected by ex
perts to occupy the position of first
string receiver on the all-m3jor league
teams. In a game he is like a dynamo.
Waldron to Birmingham.
Birmingham of the Southern league,
with Al Ellis lost to the army, has
signed Bill Waldron to play th cut
field. He formerly played in the
Georgia-Alabama and Southern At
lantic leagues and also had a trial with
Atlanta. ,,
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