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DD(with apologies to anything factual)
I believe the drunken Hal Chase probably stepped in his own regurgitation frequently, thereby transferring the ringworms to the floor surface. The very same floor surface he stepped in on his way to the dugout. The spikes, or nails as they were called then, later would infect the person he spiked, both from the rust, and the worms themselves.
Even if the spikes were clean, I would take the money either way.