Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1918 — BIG TRIO IN 1900 SOLD FOR $15,000 [ARTICLE]

BIG TRIO IN 1900 SOLD FOR $15,000

A war year, and $75,000 is paid for two baseball players. Rather a far cry from the day when the old Baltimore club sold John McGraw, Wilbert Robinson and Billy Keeler —a great trio in those days—to the St. Louis club for $15,000. At that time the deal was regarded as the last word in baseball extravagance. That same year—l9oo, with the reduction of the National league from a 12 to an 8-club circuit —Pittsburgh gave $25,000 and five players, one of whom was Jack Chesbro, for 14 men of the Louisville club.