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$100,000.00fJHMKtlflLETMt1J]Detroit Is Third Major Club Trying To BuySt. Charles Star.The Pittsburgh Courier re*cently carried a news dispatchdatelined Miami in which a Brooklyn Dodger vice president reported that the Detroit 'Tigers made a strong bid to purchase the Negro baseball star, Jim Pendleton.!*1Pendleton, the St. Charles boy who is now with Montreal, a Brooklyn farm club, after three seasons at St. Paul, also has been sought by the Cincinnati Redsand the Pittsburgh ,Plrates.Biggest stumbling block in the path of the sale is said to be the price placed on Pendleton, reportedly $100,000.Buzz Pavasi.'the Dodger veep, Rilly fcvkn*. ex-Tiger gert*Mkl manager, met with him in Columbus last summer and tried to buy the flashy shortstop, outfielder. If the deal had gone through Pendleton would h'ave been the first Negro player on the Detroit club.In addition to a sizeable bundle of cash, Brooklyn asked for a Detroit player in exchange for the St. Charles boy.i
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Saint Charles Daily Cosmos Monitor
Saint Charles, Missouri, US
Wed, Apr 09, 1952
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