Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1916 — Some Costly Baseball Feats. [ARTICLE]

Some Costly Baseball Feats.

The St. Louis Feds paid Marsans a big bonus and SIO,OOO salary for making 22 base hits, fig-average of about SSOO per hit; Baltimore paid Chief Bender $6,666 for winning four ball games, an average cost of $1,666 per games, and the Braves paid Bill James $7,000 for spending the summer in the hospital.