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Originally Posted by byrone
Those royalties must have came in very handy for the old ballplayers. Seems like they received some pretty decent coin for their interviews. The book, which is a great read, must have sold well have paid such royalties.
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Yes indeed! There were no card shows and such for the old timers to cash in on like today. And many aging players were struggling financially.
Ritter was very generous to the players, he even bought Hans Lobert a color TV so Hans could watch the games in style.