Burdick Collection (Deadball Era Show at the Met)

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07-12-2013, 07:16 AM

slipk1068

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Originally Posted by barrysloate

The article has a small mistake- Dan Barry wrote Christy Mathewson would rather play chess than carouse, but Matty of course was a great checkers player. Don't know if he even played chess.

lol. Teams would hire people to try to coax him into bars for all night checker games the night before he was scheduled to pitch.

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