Volume 18 , Issue 9

1907 - Suppose Train Were Wrecked With Browns Or Cardinals Aboard!

Via the San Antonio, Texas newspaper, March 23, 1907, the following appeared in The St. Louis Post Dispatch, St. Louis, Missouri, dated 24 March 1907, Sunday, page 12, with the following headlines: "Suppose Train Were Wrecked With Browns Or Cardinals Aboard!" Hudson and Robison are carrying insurance policies to cover all money value in stars.

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San Antonio, TX, March 23 (1907) -- Suppose the train carrying a baseball team from the South next week should be wrecked and one of the major league organizations be wiped out of existence. No probability of any such thing happening, but just suppose it did. What would be the loss to, well, to President Hedges of the Browns? To begin with, any old time Mr. Hedges got ready to sell Stone and Wallace he could get $40,000 FOR THE PAIR.

Then there are four pitchers, Howell, Powell, Pelty and Glade, who would bring $10,000 apiece on the open baseball market.

Think of the money value of Hemphill and Niles, the latter the fastest man in baseball today (1907), and O'Connor and Buelow. Pitchers like McGill, who has never shown up, cost the Borwn a thousand dollars, and that amount, by the way, will be a dead loss if the player doesn't report.

I have only mentioned the stars on the Browns' team, the men who would bring big prices if offered for sale.

There is no way of putting a value on McAleer. In the Cardinals' camp there is McCluskey and Jake Beckley who would bring a lot of good coin if the Robisons cared to part with them.
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