Excerpt from Treat 'Em Rough: Letters From Jack the Kaiser Killer Speaking about baseball Al I suppose you seen where the White sox have cinched the penant and they will be splitting the world serious money while I am drawing per mo. From the Govmt. But 50 yrs. From now the kids will all stop me on the st. And make me tell them what hotel we stayed at in Berlin and when Cicotte and Faber and Russell begins to talk about what they done to the Giants everybody will have themself paged and walk out. Well Al a lot Of things come Off since the last time I wrote to you. We left Chi Wed. Noon and you ought to seen the crowd down to the Union station to bid us good by. Everybodys wifes and sisters and mothers was there and they was all crying in 40 different languages and the women wasn't allowed through the gates so fare well kisses was swapped between the iron spokes in the gates and some of the boys was still getting smacked yet when the train started to pull out and it looked'like a bunch of them would get left and if they had I'll say their wifes would of been in tough luck. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.