Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1913 — Pioneer of Baseball Dead. [ARTICLE]

Pioneer of Baseball Dead.

One man who contributed much to the game of baseball was Ellis Drake, who passed away the other day at his home In Stoughton. Maas., at the age of seventy-six years. He Invented the leather cover of the baseball in Its present form. but. like many other men, he did not reap the reward of his work, aa he did not have It patented.