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As a starter the Chicago management signed the big four who had iinade It possible for the Boston club to win the pennant so many times in jauccession—Cal McVey, first base 'James White, catcher Ross Barnes, second base, and Albert G. Spalding, pitcher. It was a coup that fairly took the breath of the sporting fraternity all over the country. Nothing so enterprising in the way of baseball tactlcs had ever before been pulled off in America.
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