Word: heydler
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Dates: during 1927-1927
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...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...