Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1914 — HIGHEST SALARIED MANAGER IN BASEBALL [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

HIGHEST SALARIED MANAGER IN BASEBALL

Manager John J. McGraw is the highest salaried man in baseball. Last Year McGraw received $30,000 as salary from the New York club and will get the same amount this year and for three .more, for the new contract he signed last winter at that yearly salary has four more years to run. McGraw's income from baseball last year was 183,500. ■ . . .4 McGraw was born in Truxton, N. Y., April 7, 1873.' He played his first professional engagement with the Olean, N. Y., team in 1890. After two seasons in the minor leagues he entered the National league as a member of the

Baltimore team in 1892, and remained' with that team until the end of the season of 1899. In 1900 he played With the St Louis Cardinals. The following year the American league placed a team in Baltimore, with McGraw as manager. John remained in Baltimore until he signed as manager of the Giants in 1902. On July 19, 1914, he will celebrate his twelfth year as pilot of the National league champions. During his career as a player McGraw was a crack third baseman, and since taking up the managerial end of the game he has developed a number of the greatest stars in baseball.

Manager John J. McGraw of New York Giants.