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1 clipping from Birmingham, Alabama.

Newspaper feature headed Bob Messenger Is Leading Base Thief, Baron Speed Merchant Tops Base Stealers of League, Dave Robertson Follows Closely, Messenger Does Well After Late Start, reporting that the Alabama cyclone has annexed 47 bases in 84 games to Robertson's 41, that at his present pace he will outclass Jimmy Johnston's record of 81 burglaries on the cushions, and printing a table of the ten leading base runners of the Southern league headed by Messenger of Birmingham at .536.

Bob Messenger Is Leading Base Thief

The Birmingham Age-Herald
Birmingham, Alabama · 1913

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