Coronado Eagle and Journal, Volume I, Number 26, 29 November 1912 — Baseball Is Business* [ARTICLE]

Baseball Is Business*

Professional baseball Is a business and millions of dollars are invested In It b.v business men. They make fortunes out of It. but they pay their players higher salaries than -999 out of every 1,000 of them could earn at any other line of work during a similar number of months each year. Prom a baseball player nothing la required but that he be able to play a good game and keep In condition. Many stars in the old days were able to do littl# more than sign their names and read big print A better educated class of men are In the game today, but they are getting more money for their services than they could earn if they followed any one of hundreds of different professions. And remember that many of them stepped right out of college Into good paying baseball positions. Could they have done as well financially had they entered banks or tried their hands at the law or medicine?—Ed A. Goewey In Lea* lie's.