Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 232, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1917 — BUYING HURLERS IS LOTTERY [ARTICLE]

BUYING HURLERS IS LOTTERY

Grover Cleveland Alexander, Star of National League, Cost SSO0 — O’Toole $22,500. In the season of 1910 Grover Cleveland Alexander, the star pitcher of the Philadelphia was-drafted from tfye Syracuse club of the New York State league, the management of the Phillies paying the sum of SSOO for him. In the following season the Pittsburgh club paid the large sum of $22,500 for the release of one Marty O’Toole, who was pitching baseball in a most wonderful manner for the St. Paul club of the America,n Assoclatloh. Alexander proved a real gem; O’Toole after a short career, fell by the wayside, which goes to prove that buying baseball pitchers is a lottery.