Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1918 — STARS UNHERALDED [ARTICLE]

STARS UNHERALDED

Baseball history has proved that the players who develop Into the major league stars enter the big show unheralded and unsung. Wagner, Mathewson, Speaker, Cobb, Collins, Alexander, Johnson and many others made their entrance under modest and, In many instances, unknown circumstances. Little or nothing was known of Alexander as -a minor leaguer. So obscure was he that was obtained in the draft. He was obliged to prove fils worth as a “rooky,” and at one time there was some discussion as to whether he would be among those retained during his first year with the Phillies.