Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1907-11-30
TO TRADE PLAYERS
IS NOW 4 HOBBY
As a Result Good Ball Teams
Are Not Easy to
Get.

A Boston baseball expert says; As
a business baseball has certainly grown
10 be a queer proposition. with no
ideal or standard To work By. while
as an art the ideal has been reached
by fully half dozen teams In the last
40 years. This winter there seems 10
be a craze for trading players, with
the hope OF driving the men to their
topnotch speed. A change Of base VIII
often help ball player. but wholesale
trading IS a dangerous practise.
Foreign COWS wear long horns IN
baseball. and the boy touted as
phenomenal workman on the Paciho
coast or the Crescent City is sure
to lose much OF his speed when stack
ed up against the cream OF the proles-
sion i'm the major leagues.
The most remarkable teams the game
has produced worked together for years
an usually went to pieces just as soon
as the time came 10 make changes Inc
Boston Americans won two straight
championships, then dropped LaChanCe
for Grimshaw and finished I'm the sec
ond division. From world-beater
10 n tallcnder In two years Is the re-
cord for dropping off the map Next
year we win nave practically brand
new team mostly of youngsters, with
the hope OF developing winner.
The game has produced AZ cham
piou teams I'm the last 81 years In the
il cities which now make up the Two
major leagues This includes the Ma
tional league. the original American
association. the layers league and the
American leaguc-four really major
organizations attracting the attention
Of the whole country and worthy OF
record.
Outside of the cities now in the big
circuits 20 enjoy a national winner
was Providence IN 40 and 81. the
record shows the number Of champion
ships won for the different cities, Bos-
ton leading with t6. Then comes CHI
cago with TO- 81. Louis 3. New York,
Philadelphia aud Brooklyn each,
pittsburg g. Detroit 2, Cincinnati l.
with washington yet TO hear from.
had the rare pleasure OF knowing
Intimately every man who has guided
n team into hrst place FOR major
league chnmpionship-l9 IN all COM
fneucinn with the Qaukers Hicks May
hurst brought the frst pennant 70 fh /
adelphia In u Then came Harry
Wright with his Boston team 10 win
the honors for four years in success
sion. A. q. Spalding endeared hlmsat
To- the Mh"N MiAhA AAN ANAAA'fNN NffH " NNHf"
gtockiugs in first place in 70. Harry
wright landed the money for Boston
in ~ and 70. Then came a. q. An
SON with a three-tme winner for Chi
cago.
Gavlor. nt cincinnati, landed the nrnt
championship for the new and visor-
GUS American association Gaylor WaH
not the manager, but the ruling force
and one Of the prom"ers Of the Amer
lean association. Billy sharslg' WIN
mis- Athletics. won the association pen
uant in ~. while John 4. Morrill, lhnd-
"a tho money for Boston. Tho next
wear. 'S4 Frank Bancroft managed
the Providence champions, ana James
AIurtrle won the association prize Win
his Sew Horg team.
la the play-on for the first worlds
Championship Bancroft came out
winnci with four straight a. g. An
son lod hts Chicago team in h9 ana $50
20 tho top. Then Caulc w. ii, watkins
with Detroit, in ~. The New YORK
Giants now came 90 tho front with
James Murirlo and won out two years
ln fuccCsaion For four successive
years up 90 his time Charley 1omiskey
won the championship for 81 Louis M
the American association. 10 lose OUT
40 William McGunnigle'a BROOKLYN
team boa 'Sl. 10 play-on Tor the worlds
championship Comiskey got The bet
ter on Anfon ana Watkins, while NIT
trio won out from MClunnigle
1sasu came the greatest baseball war
known 90 tie game. ~ J. Kelly Jed the
Boston club winners ~ tho Players
league honors. while MCGunnigle hand
died tho National league, winners Tor
Brooklyn. Ia 'al Frank srlee came 20
the front with the Boston Nationals ana
repeated the two following years whilo
Arthur Irwin managed the Boston as
sociadon team ln ~, winners ~ the
pennnnt
ia iianlon was next ln lino with hia
Baltimore champions taking three pcn-
nants IN succession. Frank seloo tnen