Primer Dugout (and link of the day) 12-3-2012

New York Evening World, December 3, 1912:

Tutoring the scions of American multi-millionaires bids fair to become a lucrative field of endeavor for big league baseball stars. The first to take up the work is Mordecai Brown, hero of a thousand pitching battles in the National League. His pupil is Fowler McCormick, fifteen years old, son of Harold F. McCormick, and grandson of John D. Rockefeller…It is the ambition of the lad’s father to see his son pitch a Princeton nine to victory over Harvard and Yale.

It’s unclear whether he played baseball, but the younger McCormick did go to Princeton. To be fair, though, the admission standards at Princeton are probably something like “Does he have a pulse?” when the student in question is part of the Rockefeller family, and when that family is in the process of donating an art museum to the University.