Word: camilli
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...holdouts"-players who threatened not to play unless their owners paid them what they thought they deserved. Only remaining major holdouts last week were Yankee Pitcher Charles Ruffing who was demanding $1,000 more than the $16,000 Owner Jacob Ruppert thought he was worth, and First Baseman Adolph Camilli of the Phillies. Second symptom was a request by Representative Raymond J. Cannon of Wisconsin to U. S. Attorney General Homer Cummings to start anti-trust proceedings against owners of all organized U. S. baseball clubs on the grounds that they were operating a monopoly in restraint of trade...