Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 163, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1916 — PIRATES ARE NOT FOR SALE [ARTICLE]

PIRATES ARE NOT FOR SALE

President Dreyfus* Bays No One Has Made Him an Offer for Pittsburgh National Team. President Barney Dreyfuss of the Pittsburgh Pirates, denies the story that the team was for sale. "The story is news to me,” said he, “and is not true. I never have offered the Pittsburgh club for sale to anyone and ho one ever made an offer to me for it at any time. Furthermore, the Plttsourgh club is not for sale.” Dreyfuss owns over 80 per cent of the duh.