The Birmingham age-herald., 1919-08-11
Barons Lose Close Game to Vols
By James J. Corbitt.

If being traded lends spice to a career in baseball. Charles Lincoln Herzog is certainly leading one spicy life in the National pastime.
 Herzog is the most traded player in the game today. Being traded and changing uniforms is just as natural toi him as seven" is to pair of gal loping dominos." David-Harum would have had the time of his life with Herzog if he could have been base ball magnate.
 Coming out of the university of Mary land some thirteen odd years ago Her zog began his professional baseball career with a semi-pro team at Ridgley, his home town. In college he was q star infielder and his reputation became so wildly known that he was given 8 trial by the Philadelphia nationals, even before he had finished school. In those days the fans of Quak knew his as McGee
 Like the average player Herzog started naturally enough by failing to make good on his first trial and he was advised that little more season. ing would be the proper thing. So he hooked oa-with Reading in the old Tri-State league in 1907 and played the season.
 From the Tri-State league Herzog came right back to the big show, but this time he joined the Giants and he has been member of McGraw's team on three different occasions.
 WITH THE GIANTS
 He played fifty-nine games al second base for the Giants in 1908 and piled up a batting average of 300, but the fol- Graw and finally, 1910, he became a member of the Boston Braves for the first time. The following year he play ed part of the season with Boston, but on July 23 he came back to the Giants and the Braves got Hank Gowdy and Al Bridwell in exchange for him.
 Ln 1912 and 1913 he held down third base for the New York club and played a snappy and brilliant game in the field, though his hitting was not ex- actly up to McGraw's standard Finally McGraw started remodeling his infield He closed deal for Heinie Zimmerman then with the Cubs, and later sent Her zog to the Cincinnati Reds in the Bescher deal. As shortstop for the Reds in 1914 Herzog proved his yer satility as on outfielder The following
 
 and during his term at Cincy he acted as manager of the team, succeeding Joe Tinker.
 Nineteen-sixteen rolled around and McGraw decided to make more changes in the Giants. He cooked up the deal by W hich Christy Mathewson was sent to the Reds along with Ed Roush, Bill Giants got Herzog and Wade Killifer During that Harz0D n1aund cond, third and short on the Cincinnati and New York clubs and took part in 156 games He played good, snappy baseball, too
 HERZOG INJURED
 In the spring of 1917, however, Her zog had the misfortune to injure his spine when. he got hard fall In the Pennsylvania station at New, York, and eventually after the season ended and the stove league fire was built, McGraw sent him once more to the Boston club, getting Larry Doyle and Jess Barnes in return.
 Herzog spent the 1918 season as a member of the Braves. Once again he played good baseball, though he ex- perienced some difficulty with the club over salary matters. which have all ways been bone of contention be-, tween Herzog and his employers This year he reported to the Boston club and once again exhibited his old time snap and ginger as a member of the infield. B.t now he has changed uniform again.
 Manager George Stallings in frantic effort to reorganize his club was ap-, preached by Manager Mitchell of the Cubs with an offer for Herzog. The re- result was deal through which Les lie Mann and Charlie Pick were sent to Boston in exchange for the little firebrand from Maryland.
 GOOD INFIELDER
 As an infielder of exceptional quali- ties, Herzog long ago set standard