Clipping:The wealth of baseball club owners
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| Date | Wednesday, December 14, 1887 |
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| Text | A writer in a Cincinnati exchange takes a fellow-writer to task for a bad guess as to the wealth of base ball men, and then proceeds to give himself away just as badly as follows:--”The richest man in the Association, as some one has called Von der Ahe, has never squandered much of his wealth pandering to the palates of his fellow base ball officials.” How absurd that paragraph is, to be sure—quoting Von der Ahe as the second man of wealth now in base ball—making Spalding the first. There are a dozen men in the business to-day who could size up against Von der Ahe's stock without making much of a hole in their own pile. Probably the most wealthy of them all is Abell, of the Brooklyn Club. He has more money than twenty Von der Ahes could command. Then Spalding is nearer a millionaire than the owner of a quarter million. His New York business alone is worth a hundred thousand. Soden, of Boston, with his two partners, Billings and Conant, could produce a cool million and a half. John b. Day has not only made $400,000 or $500,000 in the last six years, but his wife is an heiress of a fine fortune. Hewitt, of Washington, and his family, can control a few millions at very short notice, and could deposit collaterals for the amount inside of two hours. Frank Robinson, of Cleveland, would consider himself a ruined man if he had to be contented with what Von der Ahe owns. The Detroit trio could buy out a small railroad or Government building. President A. S. Stern, of Cincinnati, could buy Von der Ahe out and not seriously diminish his own bank account, while Al Reach, of Philadelphia, though a quiet, plain, every day man, could give each of his children as much as Von der Ahe owns and continue right along in business at the old stand. The fellow who first wrote that, Von der Ahe's financial encomium, and those who have been so industriously copying it, have been using the mails and the press to deceive the public. |
| Source | Sporting Life |
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| Submitted by | Richard Hershberger |
| Origin | Initial Hershberger Clippings |
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