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[Now you could say the players should have earned more absence collusion, or the reserve clause, although the returns were so low then they wouldn't anything like what they make now even adjusting for inflation. Comiskey also wasn't a philanthropist. If his player was talented but was a poor negotiator like Joe Jackson he would get underplayed, although that worked in the reverse too. He isn't an ogre, though.]

[It has become accepted and stamped into lengths by "Eight Men Out" as fact that the '19 White Sox were paid miserably by owner Ch. Comiskey, yet Sox players players did not earn less then what you would expect. The story of him refusing to let Cicotte win 30 because he would earn a bonus sounds invented. The previous year CC surprised him with a 3k loyalty bonus top of his 10k salary.]