And the screw turns. The Boston Herald has a new angle on the story of theft and baseball's beginings:
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/reg...7&format=email
"Dead Bronx Bomber minority owner Barry Halper sold Boston Red Caps’ player E.B. Sutton’s 1879 contract, which paid the player a whopping $30 for a season, in a 1999 auction. An unknowing California collector paid $4,000 for the document, but according to a newly discovered 1953 letter obtained by the Herald, it was part of a baseball scrapbook swiped from the New York Public Library."