Clipping:Purported offers for Comiskey
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| Date | Monday, July 22, 1889 |
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| Text | At the conclusion of to-day's [7/21] game President Stern wired President Von der Ahe of the Browns, offering $10,000 for Comiskey. It is the intention, if secured, to make him manager of the Cincinnati team, playing him occasionally. Comiskey said he would be glad to come. Several members of the club say they have good reason to believe that Von der Ahe will accept Stern's offer. St. Louis Republic July 22, 1889 President Von der Ahe says that he received no telegram from President Stern of the Cincinnati club, making him an offer of $10,000 for Comiskey's release. He also states that he would not accept the offer if made. St. Louis Republic July 22, 1889 “Is it true, Mr. Byrne, that you offered and St. Louis refused $12,000 for Comiskey?” The St. Louis Republic reported asked the president of the Brooklyn base ball club to-day [8/3] “Not quite true. The price we finally offered was $15,000 for Comiskey and Mr. Von der Ahe refused that.” “Is that not the biggest price ever offered for a ball player?” “Yes, far the biggest.” “What makes Comiskey so mighty valuable?” “Oh, everybody knows why Comiskey is valuable. It is his ability to handle men and make them play ball. If a man has got base ball in him at all Comiskey gets it out of him. He handles his men as a good officer handles a body of soldiers. He is a wonderfully good judge of the capabilities of players, and he has them playing up to the top not every time. Milligan was rejected by Philadelphia, and Comiskey took him and made him a magnificent catcher. Boyle was an unknown when Comiskey picked him up and put him in Bushong's place. His phenomenal record last year shows how good the judgment of the St. Louis captain is. Duffee, the centre fielder, is a boy who did not cost the club a cent. see what a player Comiskey has made of him. McCarthy is another man whom Comiskey has made in the same way, and his spirit is the motive power of the team. He is worth $15,000 to us. You see he is not only a captain, he is also the finest kind of a manager on and off the field.” St. Louis Republic August 4, 1889 W.H. Voltz of Philadelphia is still in town. He is not here for the purpose of hustling votes for the association presidency. He is here on a bigger mission. He is after Capt. Comiskey for the Philadelphias. He made an offer of $15,000 to President Von der Ahe for Comiskey's release. His offer was refused and Voltz was informed that under no circumstances would Comiskey be released from the St. Louis club. This is the biggest sum ever offered for a player in the history of the national game. Pittsburg made a big bluff to “borrow” Anson for a season for $15,000 several years ago, but when it came to a show down the Pittsburg club wilted. The Philadelphia club wanted the Browns' famous general to captain the team and play first base. Harry Wright would still be manager, but Comiskey would have supreme control over the players. St. Louis Republic October 3, 1889[John Rogers admitted to trying to buy Comiskey, but not for that much. SLR 10/8/1889] |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
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