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    • Wednesday, January 30, 2013

    Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 1-30-2013

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    posted on January 30, 2013 at 07:23 AM by Matt Chico's Bail Bonds (Dan Lee) to charles comiskey, dugout, fielder jones, history  |  5 comment(s)

    Tacoma Times, January 30, 1913:

    Fielder Jones is considered the wealthiest ex-ball player living. He made a fortune in baseball because Charley Comiskey believes in paying men who deliver the goods, and Jones invested wisely, so that he was able to refuse an offer of $15,000 a year to manage a major league club. He’d have taken the offer if the owner had agreed to sell him a large block of the club stock.

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