Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — PIRATES TWICE BUY BIGBEE [ARTICLE]

PIRATES TWICE BUY BIGBEE

First Signed in 1914 and Let Go Without Even So Much as Trial—tfow ftosts $5,000. Along In 1914 a youngster named Blgbee was proving a sensation with the baseball team cf the University of Oregon and a crafty and far-seeing Pittsburgh scout signed him —and then somebody back in Pittsburgh released him without even so much as a trial. The youngster finished school and went out to make his way in baseball. A couple of weeksfago the Pittsburgh club paid $5,000 to Tacoma for his contract. He is the same Carson Blgbee released by Pittsburgh without a looking over in 1914. The scouts who have watched his work say he is not a second Ty Cobb, but rather he is a second Willie Keeler. He is a little fellow, fast as a flash, who can hit, run and field, and unless the dope is all wrong he should be a star in the game for some time to come.