Clipping:Caylor credits Comiskey for the Browns' success

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Date	Wednesday, May 23, 1888
Text	[from Caylor's column] Someone, I think it was Mulford, has declared that Chris Von der Ahe could throw a rake into a brush pile and scare out several good first-class ball players, so great was his luck. This thing of imputing all the good fortune of the St. Louis Club to Von der Ahe's luck is absurd. Von der Ahe's luck is Charley Comiskey. Von der Ahe's stupidity has frequently handicapped Comiskey's skill. In the captain of the St. Louis Club Von der ahe has a leader and an organizer who is worth a half a team in himself. He can lose half his best men each year and yet make a good showing. The team he now controls is not so strong by 30 per cent. as that which he had last year, but still it does pretty fair work. He cannot win the championship with it this year, but next season he will come very near the goal again. The only luck Von der Ahe has is in a freedom from sickness or injury to his men.
Source	Sporting Life
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Submitted by	Richard Hershberger
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