Clipping:A claim that Ward threw games

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[from a review of the Athletics' season] At least four of the games lost by the Athletics on these two trips, it is alleged, were “thrown,” or else “given away,” under very suspicious circumstances; their pitcher apparently pitching poorly purposely in order to be released, so as to join the Milwaukees, who had offered him a much higher salary. We may be doing this man an injustice, but he has only himself to blame, and that being the general opinion is backed up by the fact of his after fine play in Milwaukee. Philadelphia Sunday Mercury 1877, date uncertain, Athletics scrapbook, Baseball Hall of Fame.

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Submitted by Richard Hershberger
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