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Fred C. Snodgrass, Oxnard and Ventura merchant, is giveninternational publicity in this week's Saturday Evening Post.“Snodgrass developed into a really great player. He is now a prosperous business man in California, Boxeman Bulger says in an article entitled “Genius of the Game”, which also tells of John McGraw, Christy Mathewson and other great ball players.“In that famous world series of 1912, the article says in part, “when Fred Snodgrass muffed a fly ball in Boston, and cost New York the world championship and the players about $30,000, there were reports around the country that Snodgrass had been released; that neither McGraw nor the players would speak to him.“As a matter of fact, McGraw's only words to Snodgrass were of sympathy. Further, to show his faith in the unfortunate player whose historic error came to be known as the ‘$30,000 Muff', McGraw gave Snodgrass a new contract with a 30 percent increase in pay. Snodgrass was then a promising young player. McGraw’s main concern was that the one error at so critical a moment might spoil his future. It didn’t however. Snodgrass developed into a really great player. # He is now a prosperous business man in California. This spring he called on McGraw for a long talk over old times.In addition to talking over old times, Fred Snodgrass talked to McGraw about Joe Martin, local baseball star, and was responsible for Martin going east where he is now making such a sensational record on the diamond.
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Oxnard Daily Courier
Oxnard, California, US
Wed, May 25, 1932
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