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|Type of Date=Day
|Date=8/25/1886
|Title=Lucas quits baseball
|Text=<p>Lucas...is out of the club, and is at last done with base ball, after having, according to his own statement, lost $70,000 in his Union Association and National League ventures.  The club franchise, grounds and all the other property of the Lucas association were mortgaged August 14 by Mr. Lucas and his brother-in-law, F. Espenschied, to L. A. Coquard, a broker, in consideration of notes amounting to $20,000.  Mr. Lucas then withdrew from the presidency, and the control of the club passed into the hands of Messrs. Espenschied and Coquard.  The Sporting Life August 25, 1886</p>
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<p>Vonderhorst running the Baltimores</p>
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<p>We have one thing to cause hopefulness.  Harry Vonderhorst has had one season of base ball experience, and so good a business man should, and undoubtedly has, learned a great deal that will be made to work to the advantage of Baltimore another season.  When he started he was a new hand at the bellows, and if he failed to strengthen the team it was not for a want of a use of money.  He has shown a disposition to use that, and now all that is required is the experience necessary to acquiring good judgment in its investment and the selection of material and the men to handle it.  The Sporting Life August 25, 1886</p>
|Source=Sporting Life
|Submitted by=Richard Hershberger
|Origin=Initial Hershberger Clippings
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