Al just think how funny it will be to have me pitching for the Tigers
in the same town where Violet lives and pitching on the same club with
her husband. It will not be so funny for Violet and her husband though
because when she has a chance to see me work regular she will find out
what a mistake she made takeing that lefthander instead of a man that
has got some future and soon will be makeing 5 or $6000 a year because
I won't sign with Detroit for no less than $5000 at most. Of coarse
I could of had her if I had of wanted to but still and all it will
make her feel pretty sick to see me winning games for Detroit while
her husband is batting fungos and getting splinters in his unie from
slideing up and down the bench.
As for her husband the first time he opens his clam to me I will haul
off and bust him one in the jaw but I guess he will know more than to
start trouble with a man of my size and who is going to be one of their
stars while he is just holding down a job because they feel sorry for
him. I wish he could of got the girl I married instead of the one he
got and I bet she would of drove him crazy. But I guess you can't drive
a lefthander crazyer than he is to begin with.
I have not heard nothing from Florrie Al and I don't want to hear
nothing. I and her is better apart and I wish she would sew me for
a bill of divorce so she could not go round claiming she is my wife
and disgraceing my name. If she would consent to sew me for a bill of
divorce I would gladly pay all the expenses and settle with her for
any sum of money she wants say about $75.00 or $100.00 and they is no
reason I should give her a nichol after the way her and her sister
Marie and her brother-in-law Allen grafted off of me. Probily I could
sew her for a bill of divorce but they tell me it costs money to sew
and if you just lay low and let the other side do the sewing it don't
cost you a nichol.
It is pretty late Al and I have got to get up early to-morrow and go
to the ball park and see is they any mail for me. I will let you know
what I hear old pal.
Your old pal, JACK.
_Chicago, Illinois, March 4._
AL: I am up against it again. I went out to the ball park office
yesterday and they was nobody there except John somebody who is asst
secretary and all the rest of them is out on the Coast with the team.
Maybe this here John was trying to kid me but this is what he told
me. First I says Is they a letter here for me? And he says No. And I
says I was expecting word from Comiskey that I should join the Detroit
Club and he says What makes you think you are going to Detroit? I says
Comiskey asked wavers on me and Detroit did not give no wavers. He says
Well that is not no sign that you are going to Detroit. If Comiskey
can't get you out of the league he will probily keep you himself and it
is a cinch he is not going to give no pitcher to Detroit no matter how
rotten he is.
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