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...National League listened on Monday to its president, John A. Heydler, propose to make out of the baseball nine a baseball ten. Mr. Heydler would give every manager the option of naming a tenth man on his team who would bat in place of the pitcher when ever the rotation got to the bottom of the batting order. The pitcher would continue to pitch, always sitting on the bench between innings, until his usefulness on the mound was exhausted...
...logical purchaser for the stock, offered $60 a share. Player Hornsby scorned this offer, set his price at $105. Continued negotiations accomplished nothing except valuable publicity for Hornsby and intense exasperation among the magnates. With the opening of the season a few days away, National League president John A. Heydler issued a ukase that Hornsby could not play ball for the Giants while owning stock in the Cardinals. Hornsby replied that he would collect his salary from the Giants, play or no play; would sell his St. Louis stock for $105 a share. The situation was described as an impasse...